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      10 Common Words We Don't Pronounce Like We Used To

      As languages change, so do pronunciations.

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      10 Words With Roots in Lesser-Known Languages

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      10 Words That Started Out as Errors

      Words are often formed by mishearings, inversion of sounds, dropping and adding of sounds, and other all-too-human errors.

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      10 Words for Good, Bad, and Indifferent Conduct

      From our friends at Vocabulary.com, here are words describing people's behavior that are easy to confuse with other words, or easy to be confused about, period.

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      10 Verbs with Two Past-Tense Forms That Creeped (or Crept) into English

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      15 Words You Didn't Realize Were Named After People

      When something is named after a person or a place or a company, we call that name an eponym. Eponyms are everywhere—in science, medicine, the arts. This list from our friends at Vocabulary.com focuses on words that are historically eponyms but are so comm

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