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Thanksgiving is the U.S. holiday that many people jokingly call “Turkey Day.” That’s because most people celebrate the occasion by…
Today’s topic is single quotation marks versus double quotation marks. How to Use Double Quotation Marks Most people think…
Somewhere between Hawaii and the Philippines near the small island of Guam, far below the surface of the water, sits…
This sentence begins the best article you will ever read. Chances are you thought that last statement might be sarcasm.…
In 1886, a lexicographer named Walter Skeat first used the phrase “ghost words” to describe words that he said had…
Mariah Carey, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Mozart, Beethoven, Jimi Hendrix, and Yanni. What do these musicians have in common? They’re…
A listener named Katie wrote in with this question: How do you show possession to more than one noun? For…
One of our listeners wrote in recently with a question. He wanted to know whether to use the word “on”…
A couple of weeks ago when I did the show on Esperanto, I mentioned that Dr. Zamenhof wrote a primer…
A listener named Milton asked why Australians use the present perfect tense for the past tense. For example, he said…