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Subject-Verb Agreement and the Singular They
This blog post was originally published on copyediting.com. The singular they might just be 2015’s word of the year. As questions of...
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A Nerd and Some Hyphens
I have wondered what difference will it make when a reader sees an en dash. Will he think that it was some wrongly elongated hyphen, or...