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Most sources say that the correct past tense is pleaded. Squiggly pleaded guilty. That dirty rotten scoundrel. Garner’s Modern…
When not only is followed by but also (or simply but), it’s considered good form to make sure the parts…
Capital "Capital" refers a city that is the seat of government for its region or is important in some way. …
This week’s Radiolab podcast was about a strange Olympic badminton match in which both teams were trying to lose instead of…
When you get closer to finding a difficult truth or finding a hiding criminal, you home in on them, just…
In a previous Grammar Girl post, I talked about using while to mean although, but another point about “while” can confound…
To read the riot act means to put someone on notice that their behavior is unacceptable. Antisocial. Just plain wrong!…
What is different about words like bread, desk, and sword compared to words like burrito, bureau, and karaoke? If you…
What Is a Misle? Today I want to talk about misles, and one misle in particular. What’s a misle,…
Cemetery is the much older word, going back to Roman times. Today, a cemetery refers to a large burial ground,…