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Titular vs. Eponymous: What’s the Difference?

Miranda is an important character in Shakespeare's The Tempest, but she's not the titular role.

Titular vs. Eponymous: What’s the Difference?

11 Outdated Nicknames for Marijuana That We Should Bring Back

Some future giggle smoke growing in California.

11 Outdated Nicknames for Marijuana That We Should Bring Back

What’s the Difference Between a Fact and a Factoid?

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What’s the Difference Between a Fact and a Factoid?

The American Dialect Society Needs Your Help Choosing 2020’s Word of the Year

They're debating whether it should be "the 'rona" or "Zoom."

The American Dialect Society Needs Your Help Choosing 2020’s Word of the Year

What Is a Crony?

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You’re Probably Pronouncing Nevada All Wrong

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12 Notable English Language Mistakes

She wrote "sneak peak" instead of "sneak peek."

Duolingo’s Free Virtual Convention Will Cover How “Black Languages Matter” and More

Classrooms are especially important places to embrace language variations.

More Than 650 New Words Have Been Added to Dictionary.com—Here Are 50 of Them

Online dictionaries can add words a little more quickly than their printed counterparts.

Absentee Ballot vs. Mail-In Ballot: What’s the Difference?

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Semantic Satiation: Why Words Sometimes Sound Weird or Lose All Meaning

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Scots Wikipedia Is Notoriously Inaccurate Thanks to One Teenage Editor

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The Racist Origins of 7 Common Phrases

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Merriam-Webster Is Updating Its Definition of Racism to Emphasize Systemic Prejudice

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10 Words Gen-Xers Made Popular

From yuppie to headbanger, Gen X certainly gave us plenty of words we still use today.

What the Death of the Apostrophe Protection Society Means for Grammarians

Snow toy's what?