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English is a wonderful hotchpotch of words borrowed and adapted from other languages. Thanks to...
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You may have been taught to use italics (i.e., a slanted typeface) whenever you use...
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Are you one of the 3,000,000 (and counting) people who are hooked on Wordle? Or...
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If you write often, it’s easy to overuse certain words out of habit. But limiting...
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Do you prefer to work in inches rather than centimetres? Or vice versa? Or maybe...
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For Chinese New Year 2021 (the Year of the Ox, no less), we thought we’d...
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In this post, we look at eight words that may not mean what you think!...
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With silent letters and homophones to confuse things, English spelling can be difficult. To help...
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For a long time, Microsoft Word was the undisputed champion of the word processing world....
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Microsoft Word uses the DOCX file format by default. But did you know you can...
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Once you’ve written an academic journal article, you may need to pick some keywords before...
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Fifty years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to walk on...
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