Grammarphobia · Scour

The Grammarphobia Blog: ‘Thou shalt not loose by it’

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The Grammarphobia Blog: A thorny question?

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The Grammarphobia Blog: ‘A hundred literate children’

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The Grammarphobia Blog: When ‘ye’ became ‘you’

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The Grammarphobia Blog: On ‘adult’ and ‘adultery’

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The Grammarphobia Blog: Let’s go down the ‘rabbit hole’

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The Grammarphobia Blog: A chimerical journey

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The Grammarphobia Blog: How cool was Abe Lincoln?

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The Grammarphobia Blog: Osculation: A kiss is still a kiss

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The Grammarphobia Blog: On the euphemism treadmill

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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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The Grammarphobia Blog: Are ‘hopium’ and ‘copium’ nope-iums?

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The Grammarphobia Blog: How ‘super’ and ‘bowl’ touched down

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The Grammarphobia Blog: Gentlemen, God rest you merry!

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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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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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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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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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