Do Continual and Continuous Mean the Same Thing?
A Facebook fan recently asked me to solve a usage disagreement regarding the words continual and continuous. Are they synonymous and interchangeable or not?
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Words That Are Their Own Opposites: Contronyms
The word contronym is a recently coined neologism. It refers to words that have definitions that are opposite of one another. There are words–common ones, mind you–that mean the opposite of themselves in certain contexts. Learn more!
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“Past” or “Passed”? “Pastime” or “Pass Time”?
Here are two words people often confuse: passed and past. Let’s see if we can clarify the distinction.
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