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The Difference between "Breadth" and "Width": Solving a Word Choice Problem with COCA
Excerpt from "A School Arithmetic" by Hall and Stevens What's the Difference? I 'd always thought width and breadth were synonyms, but...
Aug 29


How to Mark Up PDFs in Acrobat Reader Like a Trapeze Artist: A Quick Start Guide
Photo taken at a performance by the Great Royal Circus in Kochi, India, on September 4, 2010. The acrobat is holding on to the bar with...
Mar 10


Perfect Symmetry: Using "Not Only ... But Also" Correctly with the Help of Pinker's Bracketing Technique
Generated by Canva AI I n this post, we'll see examples of how to handle "not only ... but also" constructions correctly by using a...
Oct 4, 2024


Trimming URLs Without Using an External Service
The problem of excessively long URLs is as old as the Internet, and I remember one popular solution that I used in the early 2000s: ...
Jun 6, 2024
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