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Pictures in the Dictionary

The story of those iconic illustrations.

The story of those iconic illustrations.

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Pictures in the Dictionary

 

The story of those iconic illustrations.

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What Is 'Semantic Bleaching'?

 

How 'literally' can mean "figuratively"

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What is a Malaprop?

 

We'll tell you all the perpendiculars

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How to Read a French Menu

 

How to 'amuse-bouche' without begging pardon for your French

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On Contractions of Multiple Words

 

You all would not have guessed some of these

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Further vs. Farther

 

They started as same word, but their meanings have drifted apart over time.

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Is It 'Day today' or 'Day-to-day'?

 

What about Day Tomorrow?

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Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
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Challenging Words You Should Know Vol 2 Words to the wise
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