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Back Yard, Backyard, or Back-Yard?

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Which is correct? Backyard, back yard, or back-yard?

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Why We Should All Just Chill Out About Language Change

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As I’ve said many times on this blog: language changes. English evolves over time. That’s why the Beowulf poet wrote …

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Creative New Words from Washington Post Readers

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I don’t live in the Washington D.C. environs, so I have only recently discovered the Style Invitational, a weekly humor …

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Verbing Weirds Language: When Nouns Become Verbs

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Verbification, or verbing is the common linguistic transformation of nouns into verbs. This is usually natural, fine, and practical. I …

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