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March 24, 2021 From The Editor's Desk / Grammar / Language / Words

Typos and other reasons to double check everything

“We take in sensory information and combine it with what we expect, and we extract meaning . . . When

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August 24, 2018 Did You Know ? / Grammar / Words / Writing

Unwritten Rules of English Grammar: ‘Tock-tick’, ‘Dong-ding’, ‘Kong-King’

Thanks to something called ablaut reduplication — a rule stating that, if you repeat a word and change an internal vowel, the

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