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

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) The plural of fish is fish or less commonly fishes. fish: an aquatic animal The singular of fish is fish. ….

Make Your Editor Cry: Fiancée vs. Fiancé
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Make Your Editor Cry: Fiancée vs. Fiancé

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As an English noun, these originally French words kept those two gender specific forms; thus, the masculine form fiancé is used to describe a man ….

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

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BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) The plural of fetus is fetuses or rarely feti. The definition of fetus: an unborn developing human child The singular ….

Make Your Editor Cry: Feeble Position vs. Fetal Position
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Make Your Editor Cry: Feeble Position vs. Fetal Position

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No matter how weak and feeble you look curled up in a ball, the proper idiomatic reference here is to a fetus, which sits curled ….

Make Your Editor Cry: Farther vs. Further
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Make Your Editor Cry: Farther vs. Further

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Farther refers to physical distance, while further describes the degree or extent of an action or situation. “I can’t run any farther,” but “I have ….

Make Your Editor Cry: Fall by the Waste Side vs. Fall by the Wayside
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Make Your Editor Cry: Fall by the Waste Side vs. Fall by the Wayside

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A wayside is the side of—or land adjacent to—a road or path. According to my best research, a waste side is some imaginary side filled ….

Make Your Editor Cry: Extract Revenge vs. Exact Revenge
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Make Your Editor Cry: Extract Revenge vs. Exact Revenge

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According to Webster, “Exact,” when used as a verb, means to “demand, claim, require, exact” or “to ask or call for something as due or ….

Make Your Editor Cry: Expresso vs. Espresso
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Make Your Editor Cry: Expresso vs. Espresso

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“Espresso” is defined as “coffee brewed by forcing steam or hot water through finely ground darkly roasted coffee beans.” This particular strong coffee drink brewed ….

Make Your Editor Cry: Expedient vs. Expeditious
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Make Your Editor Cry: Expedient vs. Expeditious

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The adjective expedient describes something that provides an easy way to achieve a goal or result, but it’s not necessarily a moral solution. Expedient describes ….

Make Your Editor Cry: Ex-patriot vs. Expatriate
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Make Your Editor Cry: Ex-patriot vs. Expatriate

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

The increasingly common misspelling of “expatriate” as “ex-patriot” twists the noun’s meaning in a curious way. An “expatriate,” which is often shortened to “expat,” is ….

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