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Make Your Editor Cry: Hippopotamus (Awkward Plural)
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Make Your Editor Cry: Hippopotamus (Awkward Plural)

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) The plural of hippopotamus is hippopotamuses or erroneously hippopotami and informally hippos. The definition of hippopotamus: any of a family ….

Make Your Editor Cry: Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too vs. Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too
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Make Your Editor Cry: Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too vs. Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too

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Many people use the phrase to “have your cake and eat it, too” to describe getting multiple things they wanted all at once. The preferred ….

Make Your Editor Cry: Have To, Has To vs. Must
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Make Your Editor Cry: Have To, Has To vs. Must

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Modal verbs in English serve to indicate likelihood, possibility, obligation and more. The most common examples of modal verbs include can, may, must, will and ….

Make Your Editor Cry: Halo (Awkward Plural)
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Make Your Editor Cry: Halo (Awkward Plural)

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BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) The plural of halo is halos or rarely haloes. The definition of halo: the aura of glory, veneration, or sentiment ….

Make Your Editor Cry: Hale vs. Hail
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Make Your Editor Cry: Hale vs. Hail

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If you’re hale, you’re strong and in good health. Think “hale and hearty,” the well-known phrase to describe someone who can lift a piano or ….

Make Your Editor Cry: Hair (Awkward Plural)
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Make Your Editor Cry: Hair (Awkward Plural)

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BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) Hair is singular when it refers to an entire head of hair. The definition of hair: a slender threadlike outgrowth ….

Make Your Editor Cry: Goose (Awkward Plural)
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Make Your Editor Cry: Goose (Awkward Plural)

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BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) The plural of goose is geese. The definition of goose: any of numerous large waterfowl (family Anatidae) that are intermediate ….

Make Your Editor Cry: Goodbye, Good Night
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Make Your Editor Cry: Goodbye, Good Night

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The words “good night” are always written as two words. The word “goodbye” is always written as one word. Goodbye morphed out of a common ….

Make Your Editor Cry: Glasses (Awkward Plural)
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Make Your Editor Cry: Glasses (Awkward Plural)

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BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) Use pair of glasses for the singular and pairs of glasses for the plural. The definition of glasses: a device ….

Make Your Editor Cry: Glass (Awkward Plural)
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Make Your Editor Cry: Glass (Awkward Plural)

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) When referring to the material, glass is a mass noun. When referring to a drinking container, the plural is glasses. ….

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