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4610English can be gigantic headache...! I enjoyed this book more than The ElementsMaple MAGA -9/28/2021
4609In her charming essay, "Insert a Carrot", Anne Fadiman describes a traSmoothSail29/28/2021
4608Criticism of The Elements of Style by Strunk & White "In her charming Maple MAGA -9/25/2021
4607Dr. Fleming explains to Rex why grammar and communication are a lost art. KnowTom Clarke-9/25/2021
4606I've noticed that too. I've also noticed an increasing propensity for wValuepro-9/24/2021
4605Somewhat OT - I have been noticing lately a lot of people pronouncing a word likDMaA-9/24/2021
4604I never made that connection, but it must have been. [youtube video]Maple MAGA 19/23/2021
4603The inspiration for the Star Trek episode Trouble with Tribbles?DMaA-9/23/2021
4602Pigs is Pigs - Story by Ellis Parker Butler Mike Flannery, the Westcote agent oMaple MAGA -9/22/2021
4601I understand but I'm not sure that an Italian sport-type, an activity involvValuepro-9/17/2021
4600redundant couplings eg. The game called Bocce Ball.DMaA-9/17/2021
4599Ignorance! Here is the Southwest, we have a capacity to mix English with SpanisValuepro-9/17/2021
4598Redundant? Drought isn't over, but there has been a 'very modest modicuDMaA-9/17/2021
4597smerconish.comS. maltophilia19/12/2021
4596A Close Reading of the Best Opening Paragraph of All Time Pocket worthy StorieMaple MAGA 49/11/2021
4595[graphic]DMaA16/10/2021
4594I think that is called "lazy speech". It is leaned and continues evenValuepro16/8/2021
4593I've come across "spelt" too at times (not only about the grain). Stan-6/8/2021
4592Seems to me is see the word "learnt" instead of learned a lot lately. DMaA-6/8/2021
4591The Cupertino Effect: 11 Spell Check Errors That Made It to Press TimF15/29/2021
4590Amen to that!Stan-5/28/2021
4589Glad I learned it when I was a baby. Everyone gets one free language.DMaA-5/28/2021
4588We have quick/quickly, so there should be fast/fastly; but Noooooo! How about Stan15/28/2021
4587Hm, so my objections to what I now know to be "flat adverbs" are not cValuepro-5/28/2021
4586What is a Flat Adverb? wordgenius.comStan15/27/2021
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