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4660Really fun video! One thing I neglected to mention in my previous post about Nospitsong-8/6/2022
4659This one talks about the deep connection between French and English vocabulary DMaA-8/6/2022
4658This talks about the influence of Old Norse on English. [youtube video]DMaA28/6/2022
4657On an unrelated note, it is said that the greatest tragedy in the evolution of mValuepro-8/6/2022
4656The French that came into the language was the dialect spoken in Normandy in 106DMaA18/5/2022
4655For non-swearing example, "beef" "poultry" "pork" spitsong18/5/2022
4654georgemonck · 18 days ago · edited 18 days ago Hearing her act as ifTimF-8/5/2022
4653Indeed, her preferences (if any) for what became engraved in the stone are unknoValuepro-8/5/2022
4652As in dialogue, grammar rules don't have to be as tight on headstones ... espitsong-8/5/2022
4651The headstone in itself is amusing. However, the only "error", if we Valuepro-8/4/2022
4650[graphic] She misspelled Billy and RobinsDMaA28/4/2022
4649"...leeway to scribble strategically outside the lines..." Such a humValuepro12/21/2022
4648The comma inside the closing quote is typical for American English, but not necespitsong12/20/2022
4647What does the Ngram Viewer do? When you enter phrases into the Google Books NgrS. maltophilia-1/22/2022
4646Hardest working man in history...Tom Clarke-1/4/2022
4645In all fairness, James could have taken Harpers Ferry. [youtube video] [graphiMaple MAGA 21/3/2022
4644[X] Still my favorite correction ever. Thank you ⁦@washingtonpost⁩ pic.twitter.Tom Clarke112/31/2021
4643[graphic] reddit.comTimF512/9/2021
4642Alice Sebold apologises to man cleared of her rape Published 4 hours ago [grapMaple MAGA 112/1/2021
4641I love Lucy - English Pronunciation [youtube video]Maple MAGA 411/13/2021
4640Did you mishear roughshod or have you not hear the term before? I am not sure oValuepro-10/20/2021
4639I just heard a very accomplished and articulate lawyer say a judge ran rough shoDMaA-10/19/2021
4638Fuzzy writing, fuzzy thinking. MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) The Minnesota State Patrol DMaA110/18/2021
4637It doesn't seem correct to me to use a comma inside the quotes if it wasnZen Dollar Round210/17/2021
4636It seems correct to me if the comma is part of the statement, either your quotinTimF110/17/2021
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