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  1. Jim Thome Makes Memorable Hall of Fame Speech

    September 12, 2018 by Jan Shawkey
    "All-time great slugger practiced speech at least once a day for months leading up to ceremony...
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  2. 50 Americanisms That Don’t Make Sense to Foreigners

    May 16, 2018 by Jan Shawkey
    "We asked HuffPost Facebook followers from outside the U...
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  3. Literally – Just a Filler Word

    May 1, 2018 by Jan Shawkey
    "If there were Survivor for words, I’d vote off 'literally...
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  4. Combining Quotation Marks, Question Marks, AND Commas (Whew!)

    April 25, 2018 by Jan Shawkey
    Mignon Forgarty, aka Grammar Girl, tackles the subject...
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  5. Ending a Sentence with a Preposition

    April 11, 2018 by Jan Shawkey
    "One of the most frequent questions I’m asked is whether it’s acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition...
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  6. Master These 7 Tips If You Want to Sound Smarter

    April 3, 2018 by Jan Shawkey
    "Don't get caught up in miscommunication...
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  7. How Rate of Speech Impacts Diplomacy

    March 29, 2018 by Jan Shawkey
    "Let’s talk about what we know about how rate of speech impacts credibility and persuasiveness...
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  8. Let’s Simplify Legal Jargon

    March 27, 2018 by Jan Shawkey
    "Tax forms, credit agreements, healthcare legislation: They're crammed with gobbledygook, says Alan Siegel, and incomprehensibly long...
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  9. This Is How I Went from Working on Dictionaries to Working in Tech

    March 19, 2018 by Jan Shawkey
    Abby Wolfe tells the story of Erin McKean (photo, left) who went from lexicographer to start-up founder...
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  10. What Makes a Word ‘Real’

    March 5, 2018 by Jan Shawkey
    "One could argue that slang words like ‘hangry,’ ‘defriend’ and ‘adorkable’ fill crucial meaning gaps in the English language, even if they don't appear in the dictionary...
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