• 794 - Create Characters as Great as Hamlet. How to Format Internal Dialogue
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• 793 - Why Journalists Use Misspellings Like 'Lede' and 'Spox'
";
• 792 - A Totally, Like, Bitchin' Podcast About 'Like'
";
• 791 - 'Although' Versus 'While.' Why We Write with Cliches (and How to Stop)
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• 790 - 'Laureate' Is Good. Why Is 'Resting on Your Laurels' Bad? 'Smarmy.'
";
• 789 - How to Make Your Readers Laugh. 'Whoa' or 'Woah'?
";
• 788 - Why 'Out of Pocket' Means Both 'Inappropriate' and 'Unavailable'
";
• 787 - Why We Associate Political Parties with the Colors Red and Blue
";
• 786 - 'Doomscrolling' (OK, Doomer). 'Each Other' or 'One Another'?
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• 785 - 'Gantlet' or 'Gauntlet'? Do You Want to Say 'Had Went'?
";
• 784 - A Historical Tip for Remembering When to Use 'Historical.' Put More Thought into Your Punctuation.
";
• 783 - How Hurricanes Get Their Names. When You Should Avoid Using Contractions.
";
• 782 - What are those dots over letters? Why does 'money' have a plural, and how do you spell it?
";
• 781 - Blursday or Whensday? Middle Grade Versus Young Adult Fiction
";
• 780 - Which Comes First? Who or Where?
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• 779 - How You Can Help the OED. Capitalizing 'Black.' How Playwriting Techniques Can Improve Your Writing.
";
• 778 - Do We Say 'Red Skies at Night, Sailor's Delight' Because of the Saharan Dust Plumes? Also, 'Yoiks!'
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• 777 - How to Write Fight Scenes (and How to Get Started as a Fiction Editor)
";
• 776 - Why a Detective Searched for 'Clews' in a 1929 Novel. ‘Systemic’ or ‘Systematic’?
";
• 775 - Why We Talk About 'Bad Apples.' 'A Few' Versus 'a Couple'
";
• 774 - Roy Peter Clark on Civic Clarity
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• 773 - Postal Zones. Reenter. Bougie.
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• 772 - The History of ZIP Codes and Addresses (Plus How to Write Them)
";
• 771 - Writing Lessons from Bad Job Applications
";
• 770 - 'Muslim' or 'Moslem'? 'Fishfolk'? 'Fishist'? What Is the Gender-Neutral Term for 'Fisherman'?
";
• 769 - Why Do We Say 'Cool Your Heels'? What's Up With 'Zhuzh'?
";
• 768 - Why Aren't We 'Whelmed'? And Cabin 'Fever,' Anyone?
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• 767 - The semicolon is so much more interesting than you imagine
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• 766 - 'Flaunt' and 'Flout.' 'Band Together.'
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• 765 - Say No to Marshall Law. How 'Vaccine' Is Related to 'Cow.'
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• 764 - Skeleton Crew. Hunker Down. Uncharted. Existential.
";
• 763 - How to Write Better Email. 'Pandemic' vs. 'Epidemic.' 'Canceled' vs. 'Cancelled.'
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• 762 - How to Pronounce 'Celtic.' 'Whiskey' or 'Whisky'?
";
• 761 - Why It's Called 'Daylight Saving Time.' The Origin of the Word 'Woman.'
";
• 760 - What Is Genre. 'Bangs' Versus 'Fringe.'
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• 759 - What Does ‛Mardi Gras’ Mean? "Drive to Work" Versus "Drive Home"
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• 758 - Why 'XOXO' Means 'Hugs and Kisses'
";
• 757 - The days of the week are names you've known your whole life, but do you know their origin?
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• 756 - High Odds or Low Odds?
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• 755 - How to Write Anything
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• 754 - The Tie Between Ann Landers and 'Could Care Less.'
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• 753 - Take Heart! Here's Why You Still Have Time to Write Your First Novel
";
• 752 - Why Do Asian Languages Have So Many Different Scripts?
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• 751 - Why Are There So Many Spellings for 'Hanukkah'? (Or Is That 'Chanukah'?)
";
• 750 - Pitch Black. Frankincense and Myrrh.
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• 749 - How to Identify Your Main Point. It's Harder Than You Think!
";
• 748 - Your Language Affects Your Perception of Time. 'Star Wars' Languages.
";
• 747 - You Don't Have to Get Up on Stage for Improv to Boost Your Creativity
";
• 746 - How to Make Family Names Plural. How Come We Ask 'How Come?'
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• 745 - 'More Than' Versus 'Over.' Is a Hamburger a Sandwich?
";
• 744 - Cold Turkey, Talk Turkey, and More. The Weird Origin of the Cornucopia.
";
• 743 - How to Get Your Characters Right (Especially When They Aren't Like You)
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• 742 - Famous Quotations. Silent Letters.
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• 741 - Behind the Scenes in Publishing.
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• 740 - Do You Know When to Use Quotation Marks? Also, How to Create a House Style.
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• 739 - The Problem with Sarcasm. Filthy Lucre.
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• 738 - Can a Boy Raised by Wolves Learn to Speak Human Language? It Depends.
";
• 737 - Curtis Chen: Using NaNoWriMo to Kickstart Your Novel
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• 736 - Ghastly Words for Ghosts. Quid pro Quo.
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• 735 - Dave Itzkoff on Writing a Biography of Robin Williams
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• 734 - Ghost Words
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• 733 - Why People Hate Words Like 'Moist'
";
• 732 - How to Write a Conclusion. ‘Rebut’ or ‘Refute’?
";
• 731 - Compound Possession. 'Friday' or 'On Friday'?
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• 730 - Turning a Podcast into a Novel: 'The Bright Sessions' to 'The Infinite Noise'
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• 729 - Making Words That End in Y Plural.'Primer' Pronunciation.
";
• 728 - How English Words Came Into French After World War II
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• 727 - The Quirky Australian 'Crime' Tense. 'Hopefully.'
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• 726 - A Cup of Joe. ‘Smokey’ and ‘Smoky.’
";
• 725 - Interviewing, Story Structure, and Writing Tools with Jonathan Small
";
• 724 - Why Esperanto Is an Amazing Language. 'Fall' or 'Autumn'?
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• 723 - Grammar Girl #723. Tips for Fact Checking. Why We Use the Term 'Watershed Moment.'
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• 722 - 'Math' or 'Maths'? Irregular Verbs.
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• 721 - Verbing Nouns. 'It Is I' or 'It Is Me'?
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• 720 - Getting Your Tricky Conditionals Right. Wheelhouse.
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• 719 - Why 'Literally' Doesn't Mean 'Literally' Anymore. Video Games for Language Learning.
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• 718 - Writing Scripts and Speeches. Ask and Aks.
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• 717 - Words that Sound Funny
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• 716 - What's Up With Words That Are Spelled the Same but Sound Different?
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• 715 - POV. Plus 'Tinderella,' 'phubbing,' and more words at the intersection of relationships and technology.
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• 714 - Eponyms: Cardigan, Dunce, Quisling, and More.
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• 713 - More Apostrophe Mayhem. Dyslexia Writing Tips
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• 712 - Apostrophe Catastrophe. What (or Who) Is a Cipher?
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• 711 - Misheard Song Lyrics and Eggcorns. The Ampersand.
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• 710 - Vacay. Why Some People Call Green Peppers 'Mangoes'
";
• 709 - Surprise! The History of Semicolons Is Exciting.
";
• 708 - Why Alcohol Is 'Hard.' 'Phenomena' or 'Phenomenon'?
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• 707 - How and Why the Internet Is Changing Language
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• 706 - Sometimes It's Not a Bad Idea to Dumb Down Your Language.
";
• 705 - 'Blue Collar,' 'Bluestocking,' and 'the Blue Hair Brigade.' 'Oral' Versus 'Verbal.'
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• 704 - Present Tense When Writing About Fiction. The Poop Emoji and Eggcorns.
";
• 703 - Why There Are 9 Different Ways to Pronounce the Letter T
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• 702 - ‘All of a Sudden’ or ‘All of the Sudden’? ‘Baited’ or ‘Bated’ Breath?
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• 701 - ‘Biweekly’ or ‘Semiweekly’? ‘Foward' and ‘Forward.’
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• 700 - When to Capitalize 'Google.' Why Zero is 'Love' in Tennis.
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• 699 - When to Capitalize Computer Terms. StetWalk
";
• 698 - 'Subpoena.' When To Capitalize 'The' in Titles.
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• 697 - What Anyone Can Learn From the College Essay Process
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• 696 - Hyphens in Ages. The Emphatic 'This.'
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• 695 - 'Armageddon' or 'Apocalypse'? Numbers in Dialogue.
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• 694 - Country Names and “The”: The Ukraine or Ukraine. Theater Idioms.
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• 693 - What's Wrong with Saying Something Is 'Very Unique'?
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• 692 - Godzilla, Cryptids, and Dilemma Comments.
";
• 691 - BONUS: Introducing Science Rules! with Bill Nye
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• 690 - The Spelling Bee Kids
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• 689 - More or most? Majority or plurality? The many (how many?) ways to describe amounts.
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• 688 - Dangling Participles
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• 687 - What It's Like to Be a Book Editor and Translator
";
• 686 - The 'Dilemma' Dilemma. 'Big Bang Theory" Words and Language.
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• 685 - How to Find Work as a Freelance Writer. Adventure.
";
• 684 - ‘Unquote’ or ‘End Quote’? Cinco de Mayo. Horse Idioms.
";
• 683 - ‘So’ and ‘So That’: What Type of Conjunction Are They?
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• 682 - Do You Drop Your T's? 'Sneaked' and 'Snuck.'
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• 681 - 'The Dictionary of Difficult Words,' an Interview with Jane Solomon
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• 680 - Wakandan, Groot, and Other Languages of the Marvel Universe. Easter and Passover.
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• 679 - Brussels sprouts? Scotch eggs? Swedish meatballs? Which food names can you trust?
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• 678 - Moolah, Clams, and Scratch. God, Godsend, and Godfather.
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• 676 - The Language of 'Game of Thrones'
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• 675 - Why Verbs Like 'Witness' Are Weird
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• 674 - How You Can Benefit Year-Round from NaNoWriMo
";
• 673 - Schwa-ify This! Scrabble Stories
";
• 672 - How a Semicolon Brought Two Writers Together
";
• 671 - Why We Have Both 'Color' and 'Colour'
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• 670 - Equinox. Is Irish the Same as Gaelic?
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• 669 - 'Red Tape,' 'Red Herring,' 'Paint the Town Red,' and More 'Red' Idioms.
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• 668 - What's Wrong with 'These Ones'? Faith and Begorrah, We Have Irish Phrases for St. Patrick's Day!
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• 667 - Why ducks say "quack-quack" in English but "ga-ga" in Japanese.
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• 666 - Double Negatives.
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• 665 - Language News Chat
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• 664 - Benjamin Dreyer and His Unusual Pet Peeves
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• 663 - D-Day. Why I Want a Salad-Salad.
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• 662 - Never Misspell 'Bureaucracy' Again.
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• 661 - How Paula Brackston picks her characters’ names and uses language to set a tone.
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• 660 - 'Irregardless' or 'Regardless'? Crime Words.
";
• 659 - Normans, Ralls, and Voicemail
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• 658 - 'Wage,' 'Wager,' and 'Wed'
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• 657 - 'Tip of the Hat" or 'Tip Your Hand'? 'Yeah No.'
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• 656 - ‘Relapse’ or ‘Recur’? 'Kneeled' or 'Knelt.' ’Methinks.’
";
• 655 - ‘Myriad’ or ‘Myriad Of’? What Is a Run-On Sentence?
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• 654 - 'Stint' or 'Stent'? How to Pronounce 'Coyote.'
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• 653 - How to Use an Asterisk. Journaling.
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• 652 - ‘Purposely' or 'Purposefully'? Yule.
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• 651 - 'Capitulate' or 'Recapitulate'? Colons.
";
• 650 - 'Wreaked' or 'Wrought'? 'Crescendo.' Could We Understand Aliens?
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• 649 - 'Ado' or 'Adieu'? Pronouns and Antecedents
";
• 648 - Does Your Language Influence How You Think?
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• 647 - Pronoun Order. ‘Flier’ or ‘Flyer.’ The Plural of ‘Mouse.’
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• 646 - 'Blond' or 'Blonde'? How 'Trolloping' Became a Word.
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• 645 - Interview with New York Times bestselling author Courtney Summers
";
• 644 - 'Sit' or 'Set'? Monster Names.
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• 643 - ‘In the Limelight.’ ‘A’ or ‘An’?
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• 642 - 'Regard' Versus 'Regards.' Languages Without Numbers.
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• 641 - 'Myself.' ‘Get the Skinny.’
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• 640 - Can a Screw Screw Itself into a Board? (Middle Voice)
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• 639 - Great Paragraphs. Falling off the Turnip Truck.
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• 638 - 'None.' How Pirates Talked.
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• 637 - ‘MacGyver.’ ‘Semicolons.’
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• 636 - 'To Boot.' Duck Tape. 'Can' and 'May.' Pronouns.
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• 635 - 'Quick and Dirty.' 'Momentarily.' Short Subjects.
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• 634 - 'Rack' or 'Wrack'? How to Eliminate Adverbs.
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• BONUS: Words for Color
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• 633 - Is That Comment Facetious, Sarcastic, or Sardonic? Cleft Sentences.
";
• 632 - 'Ask' as a Noun. Ships as 'She.'
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• 631 - Anniversaries. Conversate.
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• 630 - Who Wrote the ABC Song? Shark Idioms!
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• 629 - 'Gourmet' or 'Gourmand'? Why July 14 Is Called Bastille Day.
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• 628 - Why 'Bag' and 'Beg' Sound the same to some people? Does 'Texas' Mean 'Crazy'?
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• 627 - How to Write a Great Cover Letter. 'Kinda' and 'Wanna': Real Words or Not?
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• 626 - ‘Aggravate’ Versus ‘Irritate’ What Is a Functional Shift?
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• 625 - ‘Dinner’ or ‘Supper’? How to Write a Thank-You Note
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• 624 - ‘Trooper’ and ‘Trouper.” Why Is It Called a Spelling Bee?
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• 623 - 'Calvary' or 'Cavalry'? Spelling Bee Interview.
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• 622 - Is a Troop One Person or a Group? Repetition
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• 621 - ‘Council’ or ‘Counsel’? Direct and Indirect Quotations. Oxymorons.
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• 620 - When to Capitalize 'Mom.' In the Doldrums.
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• 619 - Co-worker. Barefaced and Baldfaced Lies. Mixed Metaphors.
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• 618 - Jazz and Thunder. Say Your Piece (or Peace)?
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• 617 - 'Lay' and 'Lie.' 'Grill' and 'Grille.' 'Warsh.'
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• 616 - The Prodigal Tongue. Odoriferous. Battle Royale.
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• 615 - Humor with Adverbs. Noisome. Receipts. Case Quarters.
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• 614 - Illeism. Named For or After? Misinformation and Disinformation.
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• 613 - Dictionary.com Starts Defining Emoji (an interview with Jane Solomon)
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• 612 - The Pin/Pen Merger. American. 'Half-Staff' or 'Half-Mast'?
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• 611 - Pudding. "There Are" Sentences. Winning Limerick
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• 610 - Top 10 Grammar Myths. How 13 Dog Breeds Got Their Names.
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• 609 - Pull Idioms. Surprising Food Names. Dillydally.
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• 608 - Dilly Dilly. How Many Prepositions Can You Put in a Row?
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• 607 - Brainstorming. Call Out Sick? Synesis.
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• 606 - Levidromes, Tom Swifty Jokes, and new OED Words.
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• 605 - A Homophone Error at the SAG Awards. Lectern or Podium? Capitalizing Award Names
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• BONUS: Introducing Launch
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• 604 - Origin of 'Gerrymandering.' Is 'Data' Singular or Plural?
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• 603 - Words of the Year, Why You Shouldn't Use 'Eskimo,' 'Canon' or 'Cannon'?
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• 602 - I'm Chuffed.
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• 601 - 'Based In' or 'Based Out Of.' Omitting 'That'
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• 600 - How to Pronounce 'Caramel.' Sports Idioms
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• 599 - Delicious English Words (Chocolate, Guacamole) with Aztec Roots
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• 598 - Gifting and Regifting. Take a Decision.
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• 597 - Eskimo Words for Snow. Write a Book!
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• 595 - 'Side' Words. What Is a Bailiwick?
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• 594 - The Plural of 'Batman.' Why Smart People Struggle with Shakespeare Too.
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• 593 - The Origin of English: Proto-Indo-European.
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• 592 - "Sofa" or "Couch"? "Skeleton" Idioms.
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• 591 - 'Cannot' or 'Can Not'? 'Dead' Idioms.
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• 590 - How to Write an Apology
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• 589 - The "Ruth's Chris" Apostrophe. Thingamajigs.
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• 588 - Why People Mimic Accents. Why People "Have Your Six."
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• 587 - More British & American Differences. Quotation Marks with Periods and Commas
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• 586 - UK and US English. 'Bad' or 'Badly'?
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• 585 GG. Rainy Idioms. "Because," "Due To," "Since," and "As"
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• 584 GG. Pipe Dream. Comma Before a Quotation.
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• 583 GG Important or Importantly? Time Traveler Words
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• 582 GG. How to Use Quotations. Stop Calling Yourself a Grammar Nazi
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• 581 GG. Riffle and Rifle. Worcestershire Sauce.
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• 580 GG. Introductory Paragraphs. One of The...
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• 579 GG Language Games. Jerry-Built. And Female Juniors
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• 578 GG Words from Obsolete Technology
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• 577 GG The Trump Jr. Punctuation Kerfuffle. Generation Names.
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• 576 GG Critique or Criticize? Games Like Pig Latin
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• 575 GG Gestures. Elbow Grease. Capitalizing Directions.
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• 574 GG Commas with Transition Words. Double Whammy.
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• 573 GG Until, Till, and 'Til. Dad Jokes.
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• 572 GG Themself. Comma Splices.
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• 571 GG Lego or Legos? Why English Spelling Reform Is Doomed.
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• 570 GG Burned or Burnt? Why English Spelling Is a Mess.
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• 569 GG. Explain vs. Explanation. How to Outline.
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• 568 GG. In or Among. Weird Words.
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• 567 Is Pig Latin a Real Language?
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• 566 GG. Off Your Feed. Animal Language.
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• 565 GG. Apple, Podcasts, and Prepositions. Forensic Linguistics.
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• 564 GG. Preposition or Adverb?
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• 563 GG Singular 'They'
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• 562 GG AP Style and Chicago Manual of Style Updates
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• 561 GG $10 Million Comma. Ambiguous Sentences. Tribute to Bill Walsh
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• 560 GG Devil's Advocate. 3 Tips for Creating Sentences with Punch
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• 559 GG. Abbreviations. And Then the Murders Began. Runcible. Haiku.
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• 558 GG How to Write Good Survey Questions
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• 557 GG Double Dactyl Poetry
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• 556 GG Tumult. Bull in a China Shop. Always, Never, Usually, Often, Most, and More
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• 555 GG. Toe/Tow the Line. Pled or Pleaded. Animal Idioms.
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• 554 GG 'Reticent' or 'Reluctant.' Which' or 'That.'
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• 553 GG Not Only, But Also. Leave in the Lurch. Month Names.
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• 551 Capital vs Capitol. Citing Podcasts and Websites
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• 551 GG. Words of the Year. Writing Tips.
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• 550 GG Enormity or Enormousness? Badminton
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• 549 GG Hone/Home In. Apostrophes.
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• 548 GG. What Makes Good Stories.
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• 547 GG 'A While' or 'Awhile'? Writing Dialogue
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• 546 GG Anxious/Eager. If Not.
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• 545 GG Read the Riot Act. The Changing English Language.
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• 544 GG. Pilgrim Names. Pronouncing Foreign Words
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• 543 GG. By the Wayside. How to Pronounce 'Biopic'
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• 542 GG. 'Aloud' or "Out Loud'? Strong Voice
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• 541 GG Before or Prior To? Foreign Language Syndrome
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• 540 GG. Cemetery or Graveyard? Peer Editing. To Calendar.
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• 539 GG Capitalizing Job Titles. I.e. Versus E.g. Sentence Diagramming
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• 538 Alumni. Words from Bookmaking. Beyond the Pale
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• 537 GG "Further" Versus "Farther." Horse's Mouth
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• 536 GG Hit the Bestseller List: How to Style Your Words Like a Bestselling Author
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• 535 GG Anyways or Anyway? Topic Sentences
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• 534 GG. Bridget Jones. Pay Dirt. Dashes.
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• 533 GG. Etc. Short Shrift. Prepositions
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• 532 GG Loose or Lose. You Wazzock.
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• 531 GG Writing Dual POVs. Space Operas and Soap Operas.
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• 530 GG Whom. Preorder. Badger, Weasel, Ferret.
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• 529 GG Latin Words. Batten Down the Hatches
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• 528 GG Adjectives. Logical Fallacies
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• 527 GG 'Lit' or 'Lighted.' Why Some Words Become Homophones
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• 526 GG Types of Third Person Point of View. Flammable and Inflammable
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• 525 GG Food Idioms. 'Affective' or 'Effective'
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• 524 GG. Affect Versus Effect. How to Pronounce The
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• 523 GG Sightseeing. On Accident Versus by Accident
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• 522 GG Hearty or Hardy? How English Became English. Jury-Rigged.
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• 521 GG Is Funnest a Word? How to Pronounce Adirondack.
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• 520 GG Band Names. Woman or Female?
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• 519 GG RBIs. Principal and Principle. Run of the Mill
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• 518 GG Are You Interurban? Vonnegut's Famous Semicolon Quotation Was Taken Out of Context. Off the Cuff.
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• 517 GG Why Do We Call It Commencement? When to Delete "It"
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• 516 GG Celsius Versus Centigrade. 'Between' Versus 'Among'
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• 515 GG Home vs. Away? How to Make Product Names Plural
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• 514 GG Brouhaha. New Words. One Fell Swoop.
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• 513 GG North or Northbound. Subjunctive Verbs.
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• 512 GG Titled or Entitled? AP Style Updates. Into Thin Air.
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• 511 GG Pronouncing Pulitzer. Navajo Codes in WWII
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• 510 GG How Aphasia Causes Difficulty Speaking
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• 509 GG Charlie Chaplin Grammar. S-Backing.
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• 508 GG. Haiku Winners. Great Story Ideas
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• 507 Patty or Paddy? Needs Washed
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• 506 GG Subordinate Clause Examples
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• 505 GG Maudlin. Vocabulary Words
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• 504 GG Shined or Shone? Idioms About Tea
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• 503 GG What Is a Canard?
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• 502 GG. Straw Man. Wicked.
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• 501 GG Word Families. Caucus
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• 500 GG Redundancy. Letters of Recommendation.
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• 499 GG Current or Currant? Singular They
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• 498 GG A Joke About a Mongoose. Writing Dates.
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• 497 GG Should You Capitalize 'the Force' from Star Wars?
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• 496 GG Plural of Hippopotamus
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• 495 GG Pair. Misusing “So” and “Very.” Even Keel
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• 494 GG Pair. Forensic Linguistics. In Cold Blood
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• 493 GG Hoofs or Hooves? Color Phrases
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• 492. GG. Blue. Kith and Kin
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• 490 GG Formatting URLs in Text
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• 489 GG Dialogue Tags. Writing Fight Scenes. NaNoWriMo
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• 488 GG Hallowe'en. Apostrophes. The Garden Path
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• 487 GG Wolf or Woof. Interrobang. Riding Roughshod
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• 486 - Suffragette. Ginormous
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• 485 GG Firstly. Exclamation Points. Leeway.
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• 484 GG Mantel or Mantle? Bulleted Lists
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• 483 GG Sort, Kind, or Type? Homophones, Homographs, and Homonyms
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• 482 GG Amused or Bemused. Being Bilingual. Positive Anymore.
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• 481 GG And/Or. That Should Be a Word.
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• 480 GG Matriculate. Diminutives. Crocodile or Alligator?
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• 479 GG Scrabble in Different Parts of the World
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• 478 GG Why English Has Silent Letters
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• 477 GG Scrabble Extravaganza
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• 476 GG Zero Percent, Prefixes and Suffixes, Malapropisms
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• 281 How Do Words Get in the Dictionary?
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• 475 GG How a Comma Can Get You out of a Parking Ticket
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• 474 GG Flesh Out. Last Names. Hat Trick.
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• 473 GG How Understanding Toy Story Can Help You Get into College
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• 472 GG Citizen or Resident? Let's and Let Us. Newfangled.
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• 471 GG Size versus Sized. When Is It OK to Be Redundant? Mind Your P’s and Q’s.
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• 470 GG Prepositions in Shakespeare
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• 469 GG Kudos. Crossword Puzzles. Squad Goals. June 4, 2015.
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• 468 GG Congratulations. Food Names That Come From Countries…or Not. Tall Poppy Syndrome.
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• 467 GG Deep Seeded or Deep Seated?, Lewis Carroll: He Loved to Play with Language, Japanese Words in English
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• 466 GG Healthy Versus Healthful. The Best SAT Essay Ever. Fast and Loose
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• 465 GG Two Spaces After a Period?
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• 464 GG Weird Conditionals
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• 463 GG Most or Almost. Parallel Structure. Follow Suit
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• 462 GG Everyday. Ain't. Eponyms
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• 461 GG Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
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• 105 Yoda Grammar (Reissue)
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• 460 GG Global English: Prepone, Do the Needful, and More
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• 459 GG Subject-Verb Agreement
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• 458 GG Can You Process These Tricky, but Grammatical, Sentences?
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• 457 GG If Versus Whether
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• 456 GG Is Starting a Sentence With So Condescending?
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• Announcement
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• 455 GG Why Do We Drive on Parkways and Park on Driveways?
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• 454 GG Splitting Infinitives
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• 453 GG Less Versus Fewer
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• 452 GG Why People Misuse Prepositions
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• 451 GG Impossible Participals
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• 450 GG Is Sign Language Universal?
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• 449 GG Double Possessives
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• 448 GG How Our Brains Process Hyperbole
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• 447 GG Weird Ideas About Paragraph Length
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• 446 GG Why Don't People Say "Thou" Anymore
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• 445 GG Why Do People Say "Like" All the Time?
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• 444 GG Between You and Me
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• 443 GG Done Versus Finished
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• 442 GG Make Me a Sandwich
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• 441 GG Mic or Mike? Simple or Simplistic? Uppercase and Lowercase
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• 440 GG How to Plan a Novel
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• 439 GG Texting, Coffins, and Death
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• 438 GG Why Do People Say Punctuation Out Loud?
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• 437 GG What’s the difference between England, Great Britain, and the UK?
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• 436 GG Why People Have Always Been Confused About Apostrophes
";
• 435 GG We Might Could Harvest the Corn
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• 434 GG Ya Shank: The Made-Up Swear Words of 'The Maze Runner'
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• 433 GG Why People Mix Up the Pronouns "Me" and "I"
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• 432 GG When to Use a Comma Before 'Because'
";
• 431 GG Words That Aren't Words
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• 430 GG The Plural of Money. This Is Your Brain on Writing. Egregious
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• 429 GG How to Use the Conjunction “Nor”
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• 428 GG Crash Blossoms
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• 427 GG 7 French Food-Related Words That Became English
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• 426 GG A Language Lover's Trip to England
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• 425 GG Why Weird Al's Word Crimes Video Made Me Want to Quit
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• 424GG There's Something Weird About "For," "Yet," and "So"
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• 423 GG Is the Semicolon in TL;DR Ironic?
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• 422GG Manipulating Words to Make Things Funny
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• 421 - Part II: Why Do People Say 'A-Whole-Nother'?
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• 420 - Why 'A-Whole-Nother' Isn’t Like 'Ala-Frickin’-Bama' and 'Hizzouse'
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• 419 - Using Stick Figures to Understand First, Second, and Third Person
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• 418GG Starting a Sentence with a Conjunction: Right or Wrong?
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• 417 - An Unparalleled Letdown
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• 416GG How to Kick Your Annoying Preposition Habit
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• 415 - Commas Are Like People on the Subway
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• 414 - Luisa Zissman's Missing Apostrophe
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• 413 - Words Invented by Shakespeare
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• 412 - Can I Help Who's Next?
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• 411 - Addictive Versus Addicting
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• 410GG Just Because
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• 408 - Why We Don't End Sentences With "You're"
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• 407GG Why Canadians Don't Really Say "Aboot"
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• 406GG Begging the Question
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• 405 - Is Cash Money a Regional Expression?
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• 404 - Why "Substitute" Is Weird
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• 403 - Preventative and Orientate
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• 402 - Little Bunny Foo Foo
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• 401 - How Clipping Creates New Words
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• 400 - How Reading Tickles Your Neurons
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• 399 - Your Brain on Fiction
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• 071 Units Of Measure
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• 398GG Why Some Band Names Take "The" and Some Don't
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• 397 - Secrets of Bestselling Novels
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• 396 GG Tenterhooks or Tenderhooks?
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• 192 Do I Hate Your Singing or You Singing?
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• 395 GG How to Use Quotation Marks
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• 394GG Hashtag Rap
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• 393 GG Nonsense Syllables
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• 392 GG Orangehead
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• 251 - What Is a Gerund?
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• 391 GG Scrabble Words
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• 390 - Passive Voice
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• 389 GG English Plurals: Wugs and Blicks
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• 388 GG Style Sheets
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• 387 GG "Because" as a Preposition
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• 386 - Negation in Night Vale
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• 117 - Biweekly Versus Semiweekly
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• 385 - Irony
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• 384 - Homophones
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• 383 GG Could Care Less
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• 50 GG Like Versus As
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• 381 GG Prepositions
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• 380 GG Participles and Gerunds
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• 379 GG Apostrophes in Science Fiction and Fantasy Names
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• 378 GG Apostrophes and Plurals
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• 377 GG Royal "We"
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• 376 GG Why Do We Have Both A and An?
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• 375 GG What Is It Called When You Mishear Song Lyrics?
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• 374 GG Rebracketing
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• 372 GG Retronyms
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• 371 GG Commma Splice
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• 370 GG Why Isn't "Gruntled" A Word?
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• 369 GG Why Does "I" Take Plural Verbs?
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• 368 GG Hyphens
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• 367 GG The Old Editor Says
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• 366 GG Slash
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• 285 GG "Moot" Versus "Mute"
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• 365 GG The Language of Crime
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• 364 GG Why Would Anyone Use "The Chicago Manual of Style"?
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• 363 GG Writing Flashbacks
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• 362 GG Why Are Some Portmanteaus So Awful?
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• 361 GG Is That a Wool Sweater or a Woolen Sweater?
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• 051 GG I'm Good
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• 360 GG Will himself be on the pig's back this St. Patrick's Day?
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• 359 GG Do You Tell People to Pound Sand or Pound Salt?
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• 358 GG "Only": The Most Insidious Misplaced Modifier
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• 357 GG Why the Plural of "Die" Is "Dice," not "Douse."
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• 356 GG Where Do I Use Commas?
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• 355 GG Subject Object
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• 354 GG Starting a Sentence with "However": Right or Wrong?
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• 353 GG Can Apple Get Away with "Funness"?
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• 352 GG How to Create and Use Figures of Speech Pt.1
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• 351 GG Pronouns: Is a Company a "Who" or a "That"?
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• 350 GG "Who" Versus "That"
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• 349 GG A Word Lover's Highlights of 2012
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• 348 GG How Webster's Screwed Up
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• 347 GG How to Use a Hyphen
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• 346 GG Tuxedo Verbs
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• 342 GG Writing for Dyslexic Readers
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• 341 GG Google Ngram and "Impact" as a Verb
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• 151 GG Just Say No to Drugs
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• 142 GG When Are Double Words OK?
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• 334 GG Using Present Tense in a Story About the Past
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• 333 GG When Is W a Vowel
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• 332 GG How Do You Tell If Something Is True?
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• 331 GG "Pet" or "Petted"? Troublesome Past Tenses
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• 330 GG The Rules of Story
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• 329 GG "Versus"
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• 328 GG "Decimate" and "All Right"
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• 327 GG "Dilemma" and "Gone Missing"
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• 326 GG "Jealousy" Versus "Envy"
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• 325 GG So You Think You Can Edit?
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• 324 GG When Bad Grammar Means Good Fiction
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• 323 GG How to Write Numbers
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• 320 GG You Have No Idea How Weird "Do" Is
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• 318 GG Dashes, Colons, and Commas
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• 317 GG What Does "Proper English" Mean?
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• 316 GG Sentence Fragments
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• 315 GG Possessives
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• 314 GG Mary Sue
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• 061 GG "Bring" Versus "Take"
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• 312 GG This NGD story is "all right."
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• 311 GG Where Are You At?
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• 309 GG Why Do Kids Say "Versing"?
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• 308 GG Should We Abandon Standard Spelling?
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• 310 GG Stationary, Stationery, Complement, and Compliment
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• 111 GG Everybody Wants Some
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• 306 GG "The Night Circus": Well Done Second Person Narrative
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• 305 GG Where Did the @ Symbol Come From?
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• 304 GG Should You Point Out Errors?
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• 030 GG Sentence Fragments
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• 200 "Who" Versus "Whom," Advanced
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• 302 GG Passive Voice
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• 301 GG Active Voice
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• 300 GG Christmas Carol Grammar
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• 299 GG Ten Tips to Banish Typos
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• 298 GG Color Your Readers' Imagination with Words
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• 297 GG How to Search a Corpus
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• 029 GG "They" as a Singular Pronoun
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• 294 GG Do You Resent Your Editor?
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• 293 When to Capitalize Seasons
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• 292 Overcoming Writer’s Block
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• 288 Compound Nouns
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• 287 Compound Subjects
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• 284 Who Says “Fun” Can’t Be an Adjective?
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• 283 Did Oxford Drop the Oxford Comma?
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• 282 "Each Other" Versus "One Another"
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• 280 Whoever or Whomever?
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• 279 Capitalizing Titles
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• 275 Camel Case
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• 274 Double Subjects
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• 273 "A Hold" or "Ahold"?
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• 272 Do You Capitalize “God”?
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• 270 Commas With Participial Phrases
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• 269 Ending a Sentence With a Preposition
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• 268 Mixing Verb Tenses
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• 267 How to Speak English Like the Irish
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• 264 Punctuating Questions
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• 263 How to Write Grammatically Correct Photo Captions
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• 262 Commas with Adjectives
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• 260 Contractions
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• 259 First, Second, and Third Person
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• 258 How to Write Dialogue
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• 257 Should You Ever Put a Space Before a Period?
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• 256 Serial Comma
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• 253 "Desert" Versus "Dessert"
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• 252 What Is Plagiarism?
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• 250 "Foreword" Versus "Forward"
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• 249 Why Doesn’t “Veterans Day” Have an Apostrophe?
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• 248 How to Write a Better Resume
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• 246 Show, Don’t Tell
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• 245 "Talk With" versus "Talk To"
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• 243 "Think Different" or "Think Differently"
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• 242 "Like" Versus "Such As"
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• 240 Do All Adverbs End in "-Ly"?
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• 239 Capitalizing Proper Nouns
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• 238 Is It OK to Switch Verb Tenses?
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• 235 Swearing
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• 234 Does "Until" Include the Date?
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• 233 Parentheses, Brackets, and Braces
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• 232 Active Voice Versus Passive Voice
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• 231 How to Write Clear Sentences
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• 230 When to Use Female Nouns
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• 229 Understanding Voice and Tone in Writing
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• 228 Comma Splice
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• 226 How to Use Transition Words
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• 225 Ellipses
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• 224 When to Use Articles Before Nouns
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• 222 Dashes, Parentheses, and Commas
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• 219 "Bad" Versus "Badly"
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• 220 How to Eliminate Adverbs
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• 217 What Is Poetic License?
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• 215 Hey, That's Not Grammar Girl!
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• 213 Stacked Modifiers
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• 209 Does the Olympic Theme Song “I Believe” Have a Grammar Error?
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• 206 Is "I'm Loving It" Proper Grammar?
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• 205 Readers Share Their Funny Errors
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• 203 How Do You Pronounce 2010?
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• 204 Is "Got" Proper English?
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• 202 When to Use Nor
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• 201 Is “Ain't” a Word?
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• 199 "Alternate" Versus "Alternative"
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• 197 "Where" Versus "In Which"
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• 196 Adverbs Ending in -ly
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• 194 How to Use Italics
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• 193 "Diffuse" Versus "Defuse"
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• 191 How to Write a Complaint Letter
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• 190 Ellipses Spurned
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• 188 "Comprise" Versus "Compose"
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• 187 Should Writers Keep a Journal?
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• 186 Funny Misplaced Modifiers
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• 185 When Should You Capitalize Titles?
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• 183 Verbs Sandwiched Between Singular and Plural Nouns
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• 184 When Should You Capitalize Words?
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• 181 How Many Spaces After A Period?
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• 176 What Is Subject-Complement Agreement?
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• 180 How to Use Parallel Construction Correctly
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• 119 "Shall" Versus "Will"
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• 179 Can You Start a Sentence with “Which”?
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• 178 Do Rhetorical Questions Need a Question Mark?
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• 174 "Myself"
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• 172 "All Right" Versus "Alright"
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• 170 Swear Words in Text
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• 169 Using “For” to Mean “Because”
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• 168 Troublesome Contractions (e.g., I'd've)
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• 167 Dashes Versus Colons
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• 166 Strunk and White
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• 165 Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Initialisms
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• 182 Are You Annoyingly Redundant?
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• 164 "One" Versus "You"
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• 177 Why Are British English and American English Different?
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• 162 How to Write a Great Blog Comment
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• 161 "Use" Versus "Utilize"
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• 158 "Flammable" Versus "Inflammable"
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• 157 GG When to Use a Comma with “Too”
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• 156 What is the plural of scissors
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• 155 What to Call People With Disabilities.
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• 153 Do You Overuse "Of"?
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• 150 How to Podcast a Book
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• 148 How to Write Your First Novel
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• 012 Wordiness And Idioms
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• 146 Mixed Metaphors
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• 144 Concrete Versus Cement
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• 141 Appositives
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• 140 Modifying Phrases at the Beginning of Sentences
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• 139 Is "Data" Singular or Plural?
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• 136 Complex-Compound Sentences
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• 131 Collective Nouns
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• 129 Assure Versus Ensure Versus Insure
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• 127 Begs the Question
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• 126 Through, Threw, and Thru
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• 125 Comparatives Versus Superlatives
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• 124 Better Versus Best
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• 122 Is "Have Got" Acceptable English?
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• 120 He Said, She Said
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• 118 Writing Accents and Dialects
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• 123 How to Avoid Clichés
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• 116 "Than I" Versus "Than Me"
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• 114 Phrasal Verbs
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• 113 Writing with Slang
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• 110 When to Leave Out "That"
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• 108 Whose for Inanimate Objects
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• 107 Graduated versus Graduated From
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• 104 Sentence Length
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• 101 How to Write Percents
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• 100 How to Write Numbers
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• 007 Which Versus That
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• 098 Who Versus Whom--Advanced
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• 096 May Versus Might
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• 095 Zeroscape Versus Xeriscape
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• 093 Hyphens
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• 091 Yo as a Pronoun
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• 090 Went Missing
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• 087 Used to Versus Use to, and Other Listener Questions
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• 086 Greeting Card Grammar
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• 084 People Versus Entities
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• 083 Interviewing Tips
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• 082 Daylight-Saving Time
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• 078 Formatting Hyperlinks
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• 077 Verbification of a Noun
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• 076 Starting a Sentence With "Hopefully"
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• 073 Simplify Your Writing
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• 072 The The -- The Double The
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• 070 The Asterisk (Trust Me About Grammar, Not About Baseball)
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• 068 Unlawful Versus Illegal
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• 067 Your Versus You're
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• 065 Regionalisms
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• 064 Between You and Me
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• 056 Generating Story Ideas and Overcoming Writer's Block
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• 055 Misplaced Modifiers
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• 048 April Fools' Day Episode
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• 266 When Should You Capitalize Cocktail and Food Names?
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• 042 Semicolons
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• 036 Grammar Manners
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• 031 The Lord Is Come?
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• 024 Who Versus That
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• 021 Proofreading Tips
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• 165 Abbreviations, Acronyms, And Initialisms
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• Excessive Redundant Redundancies
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• 015 Title Capitalization Rules
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• 11 Grammar Style Issues
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• 126 Threw, Through, Thru
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• 276 Is "Graduated College" Wrong?
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