Making words work better
Today is English Language Day. English Language Day was inaugurated by The English Project in 2009 as a way of celebrating this quirky and wonderful…
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"Scaremongering": a rhetorical ruse “Scaremongering, scaremongering”. Whenever anyone tried to confront the Scottish king-this-side-of-the-water with the hard facts of reality, that was his, or the…
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