I Find These Ten Words Beautiful. How about you?

For the love of English I’ve been into English since my school days. In recent years I’ve studied the art and craft of writing as I’ve written blogs, essays and books. It has to do as much with the right words as good sentences. And etymology, the origin of words, has been an abiding interest. …

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The #cancelsic Movement

I am sick of sic. Aren’t you? You all know the word ‘sic’, which appears in parentheses after a piece of quoted speech in newspapers and online. We know it means the text is verbatim, and the spelling and grammatical errors are those of the person quoted and not the one quoting. The problem is, sic …

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