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Grammarphobia
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20w
20 weeks ago
The Grammarphobia Blog: When ‘misery’ rhymes with ‘high’
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The Grammarphobia Blog: Has the verb ‘progress’ progressed?
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The Grammarphobia Blog: What a fetching Labrador retriever!
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23 weeks ago
The Grammarphobia Blog: Are ‘hopium’ and ‘copium’ nope-iums?
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24 weeks ago
The Grammarphobia Blog: How ‘super’ and ‘bowl’ touched down
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25w
25 weeks ago
The Grammarphobia Blog: Gentlemen, God rest you merry!
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26w
26 weeks ago
Q: I thought I might further muddy the waters of the wonderful word featured in your post about “[dasn’t](https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2009/06/i-dasnt-scratch.html)\.” I...
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27w
27 weeks ago
Q: I was catching up with *The Wire*, the TV crime series\. In episode one of season five, originally aired in 2008, editors at The Baltimore Sun tell a reporter that a building...
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28w
28 weeks ago
Q: I’ve been noticing lately the strange use of “went to go” to form the past tense, as in “went to go see a movie,” “went to go swim,” and “went to go download a...
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33w
33 weeks ago
Q: Why did grammatical gender ever develop in the first place, and to what purpose? English lost it centuries ago, apparently to no ill effect\.
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30w
30 weeks ago
Genesis: ‘you and I’ v. ‘you and me’
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33 weeks ago
Q: In the class-conscious Sussex, England, of the 1950s, my mother would label certain people at the village Women’s Institute “not quite quite\.” What is the history of...
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33 weeks ago
Q: When I hear football sportscasters state that Team 1 has “matriculated” the football down the field, I \(perhaps smugly\) question whether the sportscasters have ever...
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37w
37 weeks ago
Q: My daughter and I were watching a DVD of the 1942 Disney film *Bambi* when I thought of this question: Is the verb “fawn” \(to show affection or flatter\) related to the...
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37 weeks ago
Q: What is the meaning of “smack” in a sentence like “it smacked of bigotry”?
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37 weeks ago
Q: The expression “as I alluded to earlier” has been rife amongst sports broadcasters and now seems to have spread beyond that sphere\. Is the use of “allude” for a direct...
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37 weeks ago
Q: I saw this sentence the other day in *Two Faced Murder*, a 1946 mystery by Jean Leslie: “The professor is yclept Peter, and I hate to have him called Pete\.” What’s with...
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37w
37 weeks ago
Are you getting antsy?
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41 weeks ago
Q: I think you can say, “The new bits last longer than the old bits,” but you can’t say, “The new bits last shorter than the old bits\.” Why is that?
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39 weeks ago
Why ‘learn by heart,’ not ‘by brain’?
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