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Word Choice: Genes vs. Jeans
The words “genes” and “jeans” may sound alike, but they’re spelled differently and have different...
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Spelling Tips: Website or Web Site?
Do you visit a “website” or a “web site”? And should these terms be capitalized?...
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6 Tips for Writing About Disability
When writing about disabilities, we have the power to place people in either a positive...
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Phrases for Wimbledon: The Ball Is in Your Court and Game, Set, Match
The Wimbledon Championships are back after last year’s cancellation because of the pandemic. And to...
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5 Words from the World of Jazz for International Jazz Day
Today (April 30) is International Jazz Day, a day for celebrating the impact of jazz...
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5 Words and Phrases Coined by Shakespeare
The playwright William Shakespeare is credited with introducing over 1,700 words to the English language....
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5 Words and Phrases Popularized by Jane Austen
Jane Austen was born on this day (December 16) in 1775. She is best known...
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An Introduction the Dewey Decimal System
Libraries around the world use the Dewey Decimal System to organize written works. And since...
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Spelling Tips: Vice or Vise?
The words “vice” and “vise” sound the same, which makes it easy to mix them...
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Persnickety Tattie-Bogles (6 Scottish Words for St. Andrew’s Day)
Greetings to readers in (or from) Scotland! We reserve this extra welcome for Scots in...
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7 English Words with Origins in Sanskrit
Today marks the start of the five-day Hindu festival of Diwali, also known as the...
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Yarr, Matey! (4 Nautical Phrases to Help You Talk Like a Pirate)
Ahoy, matey! Yarr! Shiver me timbers! Splice the mainbrace, and so on and so on....
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