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Confusing Words
I learned to speak and write English when I was about twenty-one years old so English has never been a language I use naturally. In fact, it »»
2007 Word of the Year
The American Dialect Society (founded in 1889) voted “subprime“ as the word of the year for 2007.
Subprime is an adjective used to describe a risky or less »»
A Quotable Quote
Every morning, when I boot up my computer and check my email, I’m greeted with the Word of the Day from A Word A Day. Sometimes the »»
Washington Post’s Style Invitational
This year’s best words, in which people are asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and »»
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