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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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25 weeks ago
Actions for 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...
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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Actions for 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...
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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27 weeks ago
Actions for 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...
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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Actions for 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\.
Genesis: ‘you and I’ v. ‘you and me’
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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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Actions for 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...
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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Actions for 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...
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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Actions for 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...
Q: What is the meaning of “smack” in a sentence like “it smacked of bigotry”?
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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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Actions for 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...
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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Actions for 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...
Are you getting antsy?
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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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Actions for 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?
Why ‘learn by heart,’ not ‘by brain’?
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A tidy history of ‘spick and span’
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Liwans, porticos, and palaces
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