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Amazing Race: final thoughts

Ok, I can’t help it.  I don’t like to post two things in a row that are too similar, but I just finished watching Amazing Race and there are so many thoughts going through my head!  Like I remembered...

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A lesson in apostrophes

I was writing an email recently and wanted to indicate the possessive of Charles.  I vaguely remember being taught that it should be Charles’ with no extra “s” but since then I had read styling guides...

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Biweekly, bimonthly

Today I was putting together a spreadsheet to compare offerings from some companies we’re evaluating. As I was listing the frequency of something they do, I was going to put biweekly, but then I wasn’t...

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Language precision

If you speak more than one language, how do you feel when you speak the languages that are not your primary one? I’ve always been a proud Mandarin and English speaker, with native proficiency in both....

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