Making words work better
What’s the issue? The other day I was writing this sentence: “The exotically handsome man in the corner lowered his Arabic newspaper and smiled shyly…
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The other day, the chirruping bird alerted me to an issue that I hadn’t previously given much thought to. Is it to have (got) another…
Many editors and other assorted word buffs have a pathological aversion to some words ending in -ize (or -ise, it doesn' t matter which,…
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