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How big a difference can one letter make? Well, if it’s a choice between having...
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Vowel order can be tricky in English, since there isn’t always an obvious connection between...
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“Eventually” and “ultimately” have plenty in common. Both are ten letters long. Both have “-ly”...
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Brevity is famously the soul of wit, but it’s also highly valued in academia and...
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The automatic spellchecker in Microsoft Word is far from perfect, but it can be useful for...
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Robots haven’t gotten us into a Terminator-style doomsday situation yet, even if Stephen Hawking is...
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You’ve done the hard work in the laboratory, taking precise measurements and recording them diligently....
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With more and more research now done online, knowing how to cite a website is...
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Are there any two words more commonly confused than “lay” and “lie”? It’s hard to...
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Happy Fourth of July! 240 years ago today, America’s founding fathers agreed to adopt the...
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The words “economic” and “economical” are the stuff pedants’ nightmares are made of. This is...
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Adding page numbers to a Microsoft Word document is a fundamental element of formatting. This...
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