Making words work better
The other day someone on Twitter referenced the proverb “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.” They didn't use the phrase…
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Yogurt or yoghurt? Yoghurt was responsible for my second gustatory (i.e. “taste”) epiphany, back when I was an 18-year-old stripling on my first solo holiday,…
militate vs mitigate Only two letters/phonemes distinguish them, but their meanings are worlds apart—theoretically, at least. mitigate Mitigate, from Latin mītigāre, is transitive, means,…