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Now it’s official,’ the German press lamented, ‘the idiot’s apostrophe is correct.’ The Council for German Orthography, the ...
Going through high school and college in Texas I always excelled at English. Any class you could throw at me, I'd ace it. I ...
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On October 21 1964, the iconic and much-celebrated film My Fair Lady premiered in Hollywood. Sixty years later, the film ...
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A groundbreaking new book has further revealed that English is a global language which comes in multiple varieties, and ...