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The Letter of the Day is E! We return to our series looking at the most enigmatic, evil words ever found on the SAT.
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he Words of 2024 We’ll run through the various dictionaries’ selections for the words of the year. A lot of them are ones you’d expect — from demure (can we stop with that now please?) to brat (ditto!) to brain rot (okay, so that one’s
different! to polarization (ditto!) plus other unexpected ones — and we offer up a few of our own.
Today, we look at language rules that are rules sometimes, and rules that don’t make sense. Well, they make some sense. Whatever. They’re rules, anyway.
With the world’s greatest sporting event upon us, we look at the origins of some sports-related words.
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t’s a Dead Language, I Always Say Latin may be dead, but we still use it every day. It’s time to see if we REALLY know what those Latin and other foreign phrases mean. Do you have the bona fides to handle it?
from the Confusables Department: affect vs effect — the right way to use these two commonly confused words