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Opinion
(language) |
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Adjectives
must follow prescribed order |
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Ambiguity:
A sentence that can be taken two ways |
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Ambiguity:
Bass |
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Ambiguity:
Headline kills more |
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Ambiguity:
Puzzle-protest story |
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Ambiguity:
Triple sign in Cleveland |
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Ambiguity:
Your money is no good here |
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Anachronisms:
Dialing, choo-choos, sets |
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Announcers'
copy should be punctuated, with upper & lower case |
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Antecedents
are important on radio; don't keep repeating a pronoun |
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Apostrophe
decoding fails |
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Are
you okay? appears in every script |
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Arial
rn
looks like m |
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Bitter
herbs and wedding soup |
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Branding
and corporate passwords |
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Burrell
(in Pennsylvania) does not rhyme with compel |
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Changing
cliches |
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Closed
captioning has an English-only policy? |
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Collective
noun, e.g. "committee," are plural to British ... is
singular to us |
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Computer
keyboards need a Shift Lock |
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Crossword
constructor crosses his I's |
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Crossword
puzzle solutions yield clever rhymes |
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Dos
Equis does not mean Two Horses |
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E
requires four strokes of my pen; I'm exhausted |
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"Eh"
is pronounced "Aaay" for some reason |
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Enroughty's
family name |
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Ensadment |
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EVOO
probably is safe to consume |
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Explanations
vs excuses |
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First
annual vs the grammar police |
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Forgetten:
Judy's last name; what could it be? |
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French's
mustard has nothing to do with faithless France |
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"Graduating
high school" ought to be "graduating from high school" |
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Greek
"-cles" names such as Bicycles and Icicles |
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French
is wordy |
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Hilary
or Hillary? |
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Hyperbole
that's hated: I'm starving, it's freezing in here, etc. |
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Illeism
is when Caesar says "Caesar will not be moved" |
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Initials
define names in my mind |
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Insults
in Germany included Ignatz and Nahtzy |
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Introducing
oneself as a food item produces puzzlement |
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Jane
Austen vs Jane Eyre: which is which? |
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"J.J.
Doe" = John Lee Doe, Junior |
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Languages
I've used in titles on my home page |
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Last
names for pets |
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Last
names for women are sometimes maintained after marriage |
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Lego
ego? Galil-ego! |
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Line's
engaged |
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Longest
word in the dictionary |
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Luxembourg
woman's pronouns are "it" and "it" |
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Malice,
a legal term, apparently doesn't require evil intent |
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Mare-jot
Row-bee, the actress |
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Meaning
of "passive-aggressive" |
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Meaning
of "Toledo blade" |
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Names
that parents invent for their kids, especially weird in Utah |
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Neil
Armstrong's "one small step fruh man" |
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"Nonplussed"
means "not plussed"??? What's "plussed?" |
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Other
words we use for "get" |
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Outdated
jokes in cryptograms |
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"Over"
his head was a pillow |
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Past
tense of "sneak" is what? |
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Pershing's
name can be mispronounced? |
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Phonetic
alphabet Ay Boh Cee Doo might be easier for kids |
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Pinking
shears |
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Preferred
pronouns ("they" for one person) are confusing |
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Pronouncable
corporate names |
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Pronouncable
corporate names, part two |
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Pronouncing
"Benedum" |
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Pun
from Greenland, 986 A.D. |
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"Question"
intonation at the end of every spoken sentence? |
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Quick
brown fox is slower than Quartz black sphinx |
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Quote
the speaker only after identifying him |
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Ralph
Fiennes, real quick! |
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Receptacle
sticker offers a free car |
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Reindeer
names, chosen but forgotten |
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Repeating
a story once every several years is okay |
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Robots
use A.I. to read articles for the internet |
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Rosetta
Stone led to decoding ancient hieroglyphics |
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Russian
can be deciphered sometimes |
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S
on the end of some words is almost always required |
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"Set:"
a word with manifold meanings |
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Short
i followed by r is often pronounced "urr" |
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"Shortlived:"
is that a short i or a long i? |
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Shruggie
emoji finally makes sense |
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"Snow"
and "ship" can be represented by many different nouns |
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Sign
language misconstrued |
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Sixfolddoubleletters |
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Six-packs?
Two-packs? Cases? I'm confused |
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"Smucker's"
has to be good |
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Sneezing
used to be "fnesing" |
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Spell-check
dictionary: be careful about adding to it |
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Spinning
class |
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Splitting
a sentence confuses the reader |
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Stressing
words when reading aloud |
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Telling
time: is it "ten-oh-four p.m." or merely "ten-four"? |
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"That"
can't always be omitted |
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They
(comedian Sarah Mowrey) prefers to be called "them" |
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"TR"
is now pronounced "SH"?? |
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Translate
English > Latin > Spanish > French > English? Mad! |
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Tucson
or Tuscon? |
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"Twelve
plus one" equals "eleven plus two" |
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Vacuum
contains three syllables |
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USMNT
is not the USMC |
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Virgin
olive oil? Extra virgin? What does that mean? |
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Wendsd'y
and other vocal transpositions |
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West,
Texas, is in east Texas. North East, PA, is in northwest
PA. |
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Whoo's
there? Whoo's there? If not understood, use different words |
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Why
see a law firm? YCL Law Firm |
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Wind:
should it always be pronounced "wined"? |
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Word
wordwelds welds, and other obvious outcomes |
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"You
are not wrong" is the new way to say "This is true" |
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Yukon
Huskies, Don Francisco: their real names |