Where Does the U.S. Rank in the List of Most Educated Countries?
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Interesting infographic on where the United States falls in a ranking of the world’s most educated countries:
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Verbal Phrases
Sometimes verbals don’t appear alone. They often come with modifiers or objects. These word groups are called verbal phrases.
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Grammar Rock: Prepositions
And here’s this weekend’s stroll through Saturday-morning-cartoon memory lane.
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Eggcorns and Other Eggcorns
I posted recently about mondegreens — the mishearing or misunderstanding of song lyrics or poetry. Today I’d like to talk about a similar, and similarly entertaining, linguistic error. It’s called an eggcorn, a term coined by linguist Geoffrey Pullum and Mark Lieberman in 2003.
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