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Apostrophe-gate
Inside Edmonton’s punctuation scandal: why a tiny mark makes people murderous
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The Singular They
“Everyone has their preference”—see anything wrong with that sentence? Neither do we
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Why Do We Find Nonsense Words Funny?
Certain nonsense words consistently made patients smile and sometimes even laugh out loud. Especially ‘Skunkoople’
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Lessons in early language development
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For Want of a Comma
Exploring the two sides of a punctuation debate
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Idiom-proof
Why can’t the Canadian dialect match others for sparkle?
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MSN Spoken Here
The lingo springing from the computer keyboard is the way we write
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Lingua Franchise
Mat saleh calling it English killer language. Wah. For chiak kantang, salary-men it a bit the different, lah?
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