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Make Your Editor Cry:  Bargain or Haggle vs. Barter
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Make Your Editor Cry: Bargain or Haggle vs. Barter

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

When you offer to trade something tangible in payment for something else, say your Levi’s jeans for a handwoven shirt in Mexico, or a week ….

Make Your Editor Cry:  Bare vs. Bear
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Make Your Editor Cry: Bare vs. Bear

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

Bare means naked, but to bear is to carry something. A bear is also a black, white, or brown furry animal, but most people don’t ….

Make Your Editor Cry:  Barbecue
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Make Your Editor Cry: Barbecue

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

At a “barbecue,” one who “barbecues” is a “barbecuer” and he has probably often “barbecued” in “barbecue pit” using “barbecue sauce.” Casual restaurants like to ….

Make Your Editor Cry:  Ball vs. Bawl
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Make Your Editor Cry: Ball vs. Bawl

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

Ball and Bawl are unusual in that they both originate from the Old Norse. Ball comes from the Old Norse bolr, meaning ball. Bawl came ….

Make Your Editor Cry:  Bailout vs Bail Out vs Bale Out
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Make Your Editor Cry: Bailout vs Bail Out vs Bale Out

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

Whether you are bailing out a rowboat or a bank, use the two-word spelling to describe the action of doing it (the verb form): “we ….

Make Your Editor Cry:  Bae vs Bay
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Make Your Editor Cry: Bae vs Bay

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

A bay is a small inlet, a small recess in a wall, a compartment in an aircraft used for a specific purpose, an area inside ….

Make Your Editor Cry:  Bad Rap vs. Bad Rep
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Make Your Editor Cry: Bad Rap vs. Bad Rep

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

A bad rap—also known as a bum rap—is shame that results from false accusations or trumped-up charges. A bad wrap with a “-w” is a ….

Monday Morning Motivation 4/19/21
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Monday Morning Motivation 4/19/21

  • By: Hallee Bridgeman

#mondaymotivation
Easy Work: 1. complaining 2. blaming 3. lying 4. cheating 5. pretending Hard Work: 1. inspiring 2. mentoring 3. helping 4. learning 5. giving

Make Your Editor Cry:  Butt Naked vs. Buck Naked
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Make Your Editor Cry: Butt Naked vs. Buck Naked

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

Both buck naked and butt naked are informal (slang) English and you are unlikely to have cause to use either in professional formal writing. Buck ….

Dear Weeping Editor: Proprioception & Vestibular
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Dear Weeping Editor: Proprioception & Vestibular

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

Dear Weeping Editor, Until I started reading your Sunday column, I had only ever heard of five senses. I only knew of The Sixth Sense ….

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