Think Thankful Thoughts
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I learned today that the word thank is derived from the word think. Its original meaning, according to the Oxford …
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Refuse the Refuse: The Baffling World of Heteronyms
Heteronyms are words with different meanings and pronunciations that are spelled identically.
That’s right; moped and moped are not the same words. They are two distinct words with completely different meanings. They just look exactly alike. Whose idea was this?
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Seven Bar Jokes Involving Grammar and Punctuation
I found this today via the Behler Blog, who found it in McSweeney’s. They are more clever than hilarious. If you …
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Hoity-Toity or Hoi Polloi?
The term hoi polloi comes from the Greek and means “the many” or “the majority” and is commonly used to …
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