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| | | | | Contractions youre, well, cant, dont etc. generally make language sound less formal, and avoiding them makes it more formal. Over the years, contractions have become more acceptable higher up the formality spectrum. This is part of a general shift thats been going on for decades: styles of language that were once firmly seen | |
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| | | | | In the not-too-distant past English used the pronoun "him" to refer to individuals of unspecified gender in phrases such as "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion." This understandably annoys som... | |
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| | | | | Did "word" once rhyme with "afford" and "sword," as it seems to do in Shakespeare's "Sonnet 79" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream"? | |
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| | | Quick, without looking it up: how many elements are there onthe periodic table? If I had asked that question before the first hydrogen bomb exploded in 1952, the answer would have been 98. In that year, humans succeeded in synthesizing the first element that the crucibles ofstarsand supernovae hadn't supplied to Earth: Einsteinium. Since... | ||
