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Monthly Archives: December 2018
WOTY (Word of the Year) – 2018 Edition
The holiday season wouldn’t be in full swing here on The Better Editor blog without a post (or two, or three…) on the yearly antics of dictionaries around the world declaring their “Words of the Year.” Regular readers know that … Continue reading
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