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- Three Alternatives?
- Leech and Leach
- What’s the Difference Between “Too” and “Also”?
- The Many Uses of “Swipe”
- Wardens and Guardians
- Words and Expressions Related to “Palm”
- Are You Sure You Mean “Majority”?
- What’s the Difference Between “Say” and “Tell”?
- What do you call your Wordhord?
- How to Describe Gibberish
- Stifle, already!
- That Annoying New Verb “disrespect”
- Fount of Wisdom
- “Only” Murder
- Uses of “Dispose”
- “Persian” is a Lovely Word
- Anorexia, Meet Orthorexia
- “Juridical” and “Juridicial”
- Sideways and Clockwise
- Hopefully Caring Less About Shibboleths
- Running Errands and Doing Chores
- Hippo Words
- Words for Saintly Golden Light
- Oligarchy + Monopoly ≠ Oligopoly
- Cinderella Didn’t Wear Cotton to the Ball
- Bouncebackability
- Italicizing Foreign Words
- Wake Up, Little Suzy!
- When is a Door Not a Door?
- You Too Can Sponsor A Word!
- What’s a Miscreant and How Is It Pronounced?
- The Difference Between “Phonics” and “Phonetics”
- Words beginning with “homo-”
- Chopping Off Syllables
- Is There a Difference Between “Assume” and “Presume”?
- Tracking the “Fangle” in “Newfangled”
- How Drunk Are You? Let Me Count the Ways!
- Running “Toward” the House, or “Towards” the House?
- Pangrams and Lipograms
- This Charette is Not A Tumbril
- 30 Words Inspired by 29 People and An Elephant
- The Changing Faces of “Present” and “Presentation”
- Flautist or Flutist?
- The Difference Between “While” and “Whilst”
- Not All Epithets are Insults
- What’s a Retronym?
- Don’t Overdo “Do”
- The Word is “Succumbed”
- What Is A Pundit or Punditry?
- What’s the Difference Between a Speech and an Address?
- Body Parts as Tools of Measurement
- Words Formed from the Initial Letters of Other Words
- Deck the Halls
- Data and Information
- Demons, Daemons and Daimons
- Names “Epicene” and Otherwise
- Merriam-Webster’s Words of the Year 2008
- Words for Subservient People and Actions
- Words to Describe Fearful Recoil
- Hermes, God of the Word
- Numskulls, Noodles, and Nincompoops
- Words to Describe Degrees of Religiosity
- Don’t Blame the Americans for this One!
- Idiots, Imbeciles, and Morons
- Hurray for “Slew!”
- Here Come the Candidates
- Apophenia — Filling the Blanks
- They, their, them, eggs and freckles!
- Dial One, Followed by the Octothorpe
- The -escent Suffix
- 12 Greek Words You Should Know
- I Have A Theory…
- Complacent, Complaisant
- The Scandinavian Connection
- Obsessed With Ob- Words
- Converse Terms
- Prevaricate vs Procrastinate
- Rebut, Refute, Deny
- Dissatisfied, Unsatisfied
- Homograph Examples
- Arabic Loanwords In English
- Verb Words
- Super Words
- “Epi-” Words for Writers
- Reduplicatives And Their Meanings
- Womanly Words – Gyn
- Weird Words
- Andro- The Prefix That’s All Man
- Calling All Book Lovers
- Reduplicatives – Double Delight
- Among vs. Amongst
- Poring over “Pore” and “Pour”
- Reader Piqued By French Mutilations
- Misfeasance or Malfeasance?
- Knickerbocker Story
- Medium, Media
- Onomatopoeia (it is not something to eat)
- Good Friday and Easter
- Rhinotillexis on the Decline
- The Unfortunate Dys
- Bouillon, Bullion or Boolean?
- Fun With Words: Palindromes
- What is the Difference Between Metaphor and Simile?
- Months: A History Of Time
- Rite, Write, Right, Wright
- A Sweet Story About Marmalade
- Positions, Please
- The Yiddish Handbook: 40 Words You Should Know
- Words for Telling the Future
- Days: A History Of Time
- Time Words: Era, Epoch, and Eon
- Festive Words
- The Meaning Of Christmas
- W00T – Word Of The Year
- Gentle and Genteel
- Doublets: An Endless Source of Fascination
- Chant and Cant
- Do Synonyms Exist?
- Among/Amongst: Is there a Difference?
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