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How can you be naked wearing shorts?
At the unregulated Bank of Linguistics, there's been a run on toxic . Headline in The Sunday Times : "Henry Paulson buries U.S. Toxic Debt," with the lead describing the Treasury secretary's task as "to save ...

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:26:53 GMT

Compound Nouns in English A Brief Overview
We know that a noun is the name of any person, place, object, concept or idea. We also know the classifications as proper noun, common noun, possessive noun, singular noun, plural noun, abstract noun and ...

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:54:27 GMT

The Writer's Art: Not every 'extra' word deserves to be pruned
At one time or another, every editor has railed against redundancy. My first boss, the editor and historian Douglas Southall Freeman, had a motto on his office wall: "Words are precious! Waste them not!" He ...

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:57:05 GMT

Steer clear of wordy redundancies
My first boss, the editor and historian Douglas Southall Freeman, had a motto on his office wall: "Words are precious! Waste them not!" He preached the gospel of Cornell's professor Will Strunk: "A sentence ...

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 07:13:00 GMT

In the Name of Grammar, Go 'Slow-ly'
Published: Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 9:32 p.m. The Coffee Guzzlers Club members were grumbling about grammar a few weeks ago.

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:56:56 GMT