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Drive Safe: In Praise of Flat Adverbs

You don't have to end all your adverbs in -ly to talk right.


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play video drive safe ly
Drive Safe: In Praise of Flat Adverbs

 

You don't have to end all your adverbs in -ly to talk right.

play serenity carr next to an illustration of a refrigerator with the letter d in it
Why is there a 'd' in 'fridge' but not in 'refrigerator'?

 

Thawing one of the mysteries of English

play serial comma
The Serial Comma Explained

 

Why don't they call it the Merriam-Webster comma?

play video soup vs soop
An Abbreviated History of American English Spelling

 

Soop, wimmen, and headake did not make the cut

play emily brewster and one and the same text graphic
'One in the same' or 'One and the same'?

 

Is it all the same anyway?

play video title words of the year 1066
Words of the Year: 1066

 

English was never the same after the Norman Conquest

play hanger-hangar-illustrations
Is It 'Hanger' or 'Hangar'?

 

How to remember which is which