Grammar Monkeys @GrammarMonkeys
It's all about clarity. Grammar and language from editors at The Wichita (Kansas) Eagle. Wichita, Kansas Joined October 2009-
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It's National #GrammarDay Are your participles dangling? #GrammarMatters
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The #WordOfTheDay is ‘schadenfreude.’ ow.ly/TFh750V9rTR
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The #WordOfTheDay is ‘wanderlust.’ ow.ly/jMVc50UKjIF
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The #WordOfTheDay is ‘dicker.’ ow.ly/OAgg50SwfjZ
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AP style uses the forms Fourth of July, July Fourth and Independence Day for the holiday on Thursday. apne.ws/95ufcFb
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The #WordOfTheDay is ‘insuperable.’ ow.ly/F6e950St6Cj
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champion | noun | a winner of first prize or first place in competition
champion | noun | a winner of first prize or first place in competition
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When someone texts ‘effect’ when they mean ‘affect.’
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The #WordOfTheDay is ‘melee.’ ow.ly/PExx50RtFVu
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The #WordOfTheDay is ‘vicarious.’ ow.ly/IXSX50Rc9Cc
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syzygy | noun | the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies (such as the sun, moon, and earth during a solar or lunar eclipse) in a gravitational system
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The #WordOfTheDay is ‘fatuous.’ ow.ly/IwCE50R7P9z
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'Lay' has been used intransitively in the sense of "lie" ('lay' down for a nap) since the 1300s. The practice was unremarked until around 1770; attempts to correct it have been a fixture of schoolbooks ever since. So for centuries, no one cared... then one day someone did.
'Lay' has been used intransitively in the sense of "lie" ('lay' down for a nap) since the 1300s. The practice was unremarked until around 1770; attempts to correct it have been a fixture of schoolbooks ever since. So for centuries, no one cared... then one day someone did.
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The #WordOfTheDay is ‘meticulous.’ ow.ly/1hiI50R7NsL
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scroll | noun | a roll (as of papyrus, leather, or parchment) for writing a document First known use: 15th century scroll | verb | to move text or graphics up or down or across a display screen as if by unrolling a scroll First known use: 1973
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The #WordOfTheDay is ‘flout.’ ow.ly/6cxN50R3gRO
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The #WordOfTheDay is Weltanschauung. ow.ly/evYe50QO1rH
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The #WordOfTheDay is ‘luminary.’ ow.ly/r4vm50QL4pO
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A majority is more than half the votes cast; a plurality is the largest number of votes, but less than a majority.
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