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How fast can you name all 26 words in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet? This quiz will put your knowledge and speed to the test.

These British reformers wanted to ditch "i before e" for something a little simpler. Who could blame them?
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Some of Webster's suggested reforms caught on and still mark a difference between American and British writing. But you won't beleev how many of his reforms went nowhere.
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Language is a continual process of evolution, but these words—from pea to sherry—changed thanks to outright mistakes.
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A semordnilap (itself a semordnilap of “palindromes”) makes a completely different word when spelled backwards.
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