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SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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3986Countertransference? (for the other word)Stan-10/15/2006
3985"frustrated by a red on the way to the session" should have read, &quoE-10/15/2006
3984Thank you. But though that does evoke the agitated part, I don't believe it&E-10/15/2006
3983APOPLECTIC?Kitskid-10/15/2006
3982A friend writes about a word she knows but can't remember: "I wonder iE-10/14/2006
3981See the link for the list of autoantonyms: fun-with-words.com The Origin of AuThomas M.-8/15/2006
3980Thanks for the reply. This is what I wrote to my grammar-maven friend last nightE-7/10/2006
3979It seems to me that "may" connotes permission to do something or havinStan-7/9/2006
3978"Bush Says U.S. May Have Been Able to Intercept North Korean Missile" E-7/9/2006
3977I have found the best spellcheck to be Google's.jrhana-7/2/2006
3976Use the spellcheck.The Chairman-7/2/2006
3975When striving for clarity, the importance of precisely correct punctuation cannoLady Lurksalot-1/27/2006
3974David: I looked up <i>arch</i> and also put it in a few sentences wJack Clarke-12/19/2004
3973Whether you recognize it or not, it's a perfectly good definition and usage.David C. Burns-12/19/2004
3972<i>adjective: (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who tJack Clarke-12/19/2004
3971'its' not 'it's,' I hasten, given the thread we're on, tE-11/27/2004
3970Well, look, I'm not so dumb after all! I should have looked further, insteadE-11/27/2004
3969arch-1 pref. 1. Chief; highest; most important: archenemy. 2. Extreme or TimF-11/27/2004
3968NO LOOKING THIS UP! I've always thought the word "arch," as in &qE-11/27/2004
3967From today's USA Today: "There has never been a secretary of sate likePaul Senior-11/18/2004
3966From the World -AP Asia: "Asim Ghafoor was fattaly wounded as gunfire erupPaul Senior-11/17/2004
3965It's too eerily close to "Taliban-American," another hyphenated AmStan-9/28/2004
3964"American Taliban" How can an individual person be an "American Quahog-9/27/2004
3963Something Catastrophic Didn't Happen ... Too Bad Something Else CatastrophicTimF-9/24/2004
3962Holly: Those are amazing and hilarious.Truth is stranger.... JackJack Clarke-6/24/2004
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