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Some English words, like ‘plop’, are spelled exactly how they sound. However, not every word...
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The word ‘lead’ has many definitions. Too many, really. In fact, somebody should have put...
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One of the first spelling ‘rules’ we learn at school in the UK is a...
News flash! You need to cite your sources when writing an academic paper. Perhaps you...
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This is a post about compound words, but let’s start with the Spice Girls: Come...
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English is unusual in that, technically, it doesn’t have a future tense. This doesn’t mean...
What’s in the news today? Death, destruction and misery? Oh well. Let’s write an academic...
The word ‘altogether’ sounds the same as ‘all together’, so are these just different ways...
While some verbs happily obey the ‘rules’ of grammar, irregular verbs do things their own...
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Usually, we deal with homophones in our Word Choice posts. But today, we’re looking at...