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Was that uncle who wiped the floor with you in a card game a cardsharp or a card shark? Also, we loo
I have a big metaphorical pile of questions from listeners in which the answers are too short to be
Today we use milk and cookies for Santa to figure out when compound subjects are singular or plural.
Accomplished mystery writer Lori Rader-Day was drawn to the story of children who were evacuated to
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WWII was a rich source of new words for the English language. Before the 1940s, you couldn't tell an
Today, I talked with Saraciea Fennell, who works in publishing, is behind the Bronx Book Festival, a
The words tombstone and gravestone used to refer to large stone slabs that served as a lid for a tom
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Researchers and companies are harnessing computers to identify the emotions behind our written words
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The author of "The Language of Leadership," Joel Schwartzberg, explains how you can make small tweak
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