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Topic: Grammar

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11 misheard phrases that make sense

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss

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Decoding Trump's capital letters

Chauncey DeVega
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Grammar snobbery won't get you dates

Marty Kaplan - Alternet
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It's why UR still single

Erin Coulehan
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Leah Barber - The National Book Review
Mary Norris (W.W. Norton/Josef Astor)

Copyeditor Tells All

Marian Ryan
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"He" and "she" doesn't cut it

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Hugh Eakin and Robert Silvers in "The 50 Year Argument" (HBO/Brigitte Lacombe)

The vanishing editor

Laura Miller
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George Orwell, Will Self (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

George Orwell, style fascist?

Laura Miller
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Prachi Gupta

Don't be a "moran"

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Chris Ostendorf - The Daily Dot
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Rebecca Martinson (vice.com)

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Prachi Gupta
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Prachi Gupta

It's OK to use fragments

James Harbeck - The Week
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Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Too many exclamation points!!!

Steve Macone

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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