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The origin of “every cloud has a silver lining”
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Why Wednesday hides a d
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Incidence vs. incidents: what is the difference?
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The dots in naïve and Zoë: what a diaeresis means
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Accidental vs. incidental: what is the difference?
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Why we say “pour oil on troubled waters”
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What factoid originally meant
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How long should a written sentence be?
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Why we say “gild the lily”
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No one invented English grammar
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Why stoic comes from a painted porch
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English began as a Germanic language
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How gossip went from godparent to rumor talk
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What “the eleventh hour” means, and where it comes from
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The paragraph symbol, ¶, is called a pilcrow
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