Tag: english
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Artist Uses Clever Illustrations To Show Us the Difference Between Homophones
On his blog called Homophones, Weakly, Bruce Worden uses minimalistic illustrations to help us understand the differences between homophones (each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling). Piece or Peace? Sail or Sale? Bare or Bear? Bruce's got an illustration to help you with that. Scroll down and comment…
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Brilliant New Words We Should Add To A Dictionary
When languages evolve, it’s important that scholars and dictionaries keep up. The internet has spawned a new crop of words for stuff, and while you may not like all of them, some of them are really clever combos that seem like they might actually be useful! Many of these words come from urbandictionary.com, which is basically…