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Questions about the history and trends of the English language.
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Are there any archaic words in older strands of English that approximate the modern term "ba...
In the movie Patton, General George Patton tells Erwin Rommel how he defeated him. "Rommel, you magnificent bastard, I read your book."
I can't tell if the usage is actually from the WWII era, but th …
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When and why did the em-dash and the hyphen supplant the semicolon?
The short answer, I think, is that the em-dash makes it easier to read the sentence and thus more likely that the reader will understand your point and want to continue reading.
Readers today are in …
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