TWTS: Your verbiage might be your best quality, unless its your worst
TWTS: Your verbiage might be your best quality, unless its your worst
If you mention my verbiage, it’s no longer clear if I should be insulted.
14 Aug 2023
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4mins
TWTS: An extra maître d' serves up a spelling question
TWTS: An extra maître d' serves up a spelling question
If you have more than one head waiter at a restaurant, you run into a funny spelling question in English.
6 Aug 2023
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4mins
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TWTS: How clean is a whistle, really?
TWTS: How clean is a whistle, really?
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30 Jul 2023
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TWTS: Don't blow off "off"
TWTS: Don't blow off "off"
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TWTS: Comparatives need gooder usage rules
TWTS: Comparatives need gooder usage rules
There’s a reason it sounds odd if we say it just got beautifuller and beautifuller.
16 Jul 2023
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5mins
TWTS: Broadcasting doubt about "broadcasted"
TWTS: Broadcasting doubt about "broadcasted"
Today we broadcast the news. Tomorrow we will broadcast the news. And yesterday? We broadcast the news.
9 Jul 2023
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4mins
TWTS: Both may come from a hare, but it's still "hide nor hair"
TWTS: Both may come from a hare, but it's still "hide nor hair"
There's the hair on on our heads and the hares we see hopping around our yards. There's been some confusion over which o... Read more
2 Jul 2023
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4mins
TWTS: Dictionaries are defined by their editors
TWTS: Dictionaries are defined by their editors
Often we will refer to looking something up in "the dictionary." That suggests that it doesn’t really matter which dicti... Read more
25 Jun 2023
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5mins
TWTS: We hereby sanction you to use "sanction" as you see fit
TWTS: We hereby sanction you to use "sanction" as you see fit
If we sanction things with no other context, it’s not clear whether these things will be allowed or whether they will be... Read more
11 Jun 2023
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TWTS: What's the "hap" in "haphazard"?
TWTS: What's the "hap" in "haphazard"?
Some speakers have come to understand "haphazard" as "half-hazard," because who knows what a "hap" is.
4 Jun 2023
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