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Words You Didn’t Know You Needed

Each grammar rule must have a name. And any infringement of one of those rules also needs a name: zeugma is just the start.

We have been through the entire alphabet A through Y of confused words, so you are ready for the final exam! Here we go…

I want to tell you about a word I found that I’d been using incorrectly for I have no idea how many–(ahem) decades. It involves homophones.

Woke: Woke used to be the past tense of wake.

They claim that, despite English being the most widely spoken language in the world ever, it is hard to learn. Let’s look at Spanish, shall we?

When I went to junior high and high school, back in the Dark Ages (practically), we read the worst (in my opinion) books.

… and a little bit of that.

Here are some of the novels I have read in the past couple of months.