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Make Your Editor Cry: Irony vs. Coincidence/ Inconvenience/ Unfortunate Event
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Make Your Editor Cry: Irony vs. Coincidence/ Inconvenience/ Unfortunate Event

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

Perhaps ironically, Alanis Morissette’s song entitled “Isn’t it Ironic?” has little to do with irony. Irony has several meanings, all of which include some type ….

Make Your Editor Cry: Into vs. In To
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Make Your Editor Cry: Into vs. In To

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

“Into” and “in to” are two distinct words and phrases, but they’re often used almost interchangeably, even though they shouldn’t be. “Into” is a single ….

Make Your Editor Cry: Ingenious vs. Ingenuous
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Make Your Editor Cry: Ingenious vs. Ingenuous

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

Something ingenious shows intellectual creativity, cleverness, and inventiveness. If someone compares you to Albert Einstein, he is implying that you, too, are ingenious. Someone who ….

Monday Morning Motivation 9/6/21
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Monday Morning Motivation 9/6/21

  • By: Hallee Bridgeman

“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.” ~William Faulkner

Make Your Editor Cry: Incredible vs. Incredulous
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Make Your Editor Cry: Incredible vs. Incredulous

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

Incredible describes something you can’t believe because it’s so right, like an incredible double rainbow. Incredulous describes how you feel when you can’t believe something ….

Make Your Editor Cry: In Route or On Route vs. En Route
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Make Your Editor Cry: In Route or On Route vs. En Route

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

The phrase en route which means “on or along the way” is borrowed from the French and has been in common use in English since ….

Make Your Editor Cry: In Mass vs. En Masse
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Make Your Editor Cry: In Mass vs. En Masse

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

We borrowed the phrase en masse from the French. The first use dates back to the 18th century. Example: The mob marched en masse to ….

Make Your Editor Cry: Imply vs. Infer
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Make Your Editor Cry: Imply vs. Infer

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

To imply means to suggest something without saying it outright. To infer means to draw a conclusion from what someone else implies. Both verbs have ….

Make Your Editor Cry: Impacted vs. Impact
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Make Your Editor Cry: Impacted vs. Impact

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

Confession. This one drives me a little bit crazy. The word impacted is an adjective. The word impact is a noun. Yet sentences such as ….

Make Your Editor Cry: I’m (not) Able To vs. It’s (not) Able To
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Make Your Editor Cry: I’m (not) Able To vs. It’s (not) Able To

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

People are able to do things, but Things are not able to be done. Likewise, people are not able to do things, but things are ….

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