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Category Archives: English is Drunk
Some Rules Are Made To Be Broken
A few years ago, a good friend of mine told me about her experience learning basic Italian for a trip to “the old country”. The instructor was explaining the rules for spelling and pronunciation, and at the end of the … Continue reading
Ad Homonym
When you start to tally up the many ways there are to represent one sound, the more you realize just how remarkably flexible English is. Continue reading
The Limits of Intuition
As a child, I learned the rules of grammar and spelling, or at least I gained a significant intuitive understanding of them; as an adult, I was able to use this strong intuition to produce a lot of very clear, forceful, and persuasive essays during both my undergraduate and graduate studies. Clearly, I was quite adept at using the language effectively. What more did I need to know? Continue reading
Quills and Queries Editing 