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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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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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How Do You Pronounce 'Groceries'?

 

Is there one standard way?

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How to Remember 'Affect' and 'Effect'

 

A simple way to keep them apart. (Most of the time.)

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Fun, Funner, Funnest

 

Why does it sound strange to say 'funner' or 'funnest?'

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Why is there a 'd' in 'fridge' but not in 'refrigerator'?

 

Thawing one of the mysteries of English

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The Serial Comma Explained

 

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

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Literally

 

A word that (literally) drives people nuts