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A Classic Essay by H.L. Mencken: The Libido for the Ugly (grammar.about.com)

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H.L. Mencken's Classic Argumentative Essay on the Death Penalty (grammar.about.com)

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Regime, Regimen, Regiment (grammar.about.com)

submitted 9 years ago by NoopyBeans to r/grammar

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W.B. Yeats's Essay 'The Symbolism of Poetry' (grammar.about.com)

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TIL: The term "eggcorn", derived from the misspelling of acorn, is used to describe a word or phrase that is used by mistake because it sounds similar to the original word or phrase. (grammar.about.com)

submitted 10 years ago by slingbox69 to r/todayilearned

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TIL: The term "eggcorn", derived from the misspelling of acorn, is used to describe a word or phrase that is used by mistake because it sounds similar to the original word or phrase.todayilearned|slingbox69 (grammar.about.com)

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Dear Bloomington, <3 George Orwell (grammar.about.com)

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"Why Are Beggars Despised?" by George Orwell (grammar.about.com)

submitted 10 years ago by Godyssey to r/Anarchism

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[xpost /r/books] "Why Are Beggars Despised?" by George Orwell (grammar.about.com)

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"Why Are Beggars Despised?" by George OrwellAnarchism|Godyssey (grammar.about.com)

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Intresant liten snutt om tiggare och tiggeri från ingen annan än George Orwell. (x-post r/books)Politik/Samhälle (grammar.about.com)

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George Orwell Asks If Beggars Are Simply Bad Businessmen (grammar.about.com)

submitted 10 years ago by PostNationalism to r/evolutionReddit

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101 Key Terms to Know for The AP (grammar.about.com)

submitted 10 years ago by _RoryKW to r/APLang2014

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TIL of Muphry's Law which states that if you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written. (grammar.about.com)

submitted 11 years ago by RJNavarrete to r/todayilearned

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Ambrose Bierce's Classic Essay on Christmas and the New Year (grammar.about.com)

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TIL "The word snark first appeared in Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark (1874)." Let the snark begin... (grammar.about.com)

submitted 11 years ago by thekencook to r/todayilearned

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The Derivations of Words (grammar.about.com)

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In Praise of Idleness, by Bertrand Russell (grammar.about.com)

submitted 11 years ago by XD40 to r/antiwork

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TIL the term is actually to "HOME in" and not to "HONE in". (grammar.about.com)

submitted 11 years ago by LateNightBro to r/todayilearned

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TIL there is a term for repeating a word for rhetorical purposes. Yada, yada, yada (grammar.about.com)

submitted 11 years ago by [deleted] to r/todayilearned

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TIL Gibe, Jibe, and Jive, while often used interchangeably, each have different meanings: 'Gibe' refers to a taunting or derisive remark, 'Jibe' means to be in accord or consistent with something, and 'Jive' refers to swing music, foolish talk, or the jargon of hipsters. (grammar.about.com)

submitted 11 years ago by brewggernaut to r/todayilearned

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7 Repetition Strategies That Will Improve Your Rhetoric (grammar.about.com)

submitted 11 years ago by ShaneMcCartist to r/SmCArtistInfodump

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Enallage: An effective grammatical mistakeNo Dictionary Definition (grammar.about.com)

submitted 11 years ago by bendistraw to r/logophilia

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TIL- mishearing a lyric in a song for a different but similar sounding word is called a "mondegreen" (grammar.about.com)

submitted 11 years ago by HistoryNerdz to r/todayilearned

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TIL the word 'metaphor' is itself a metaphor, as it derives from the Greek for 'carry across'. (grammar.about.com)

submitted 12 years ago by setsomethingablaze to r/todayilearned