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How Do You Pronounce 'Tomato'? Why Is 'Chiropractic' Singular. Fish.

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

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The Samele Story and an Answer to a Question

I'm listening to an old show of yours from two thousand 19 abouta slang the samelect and i just have a really good one that i want to share with you. Our word is fish. It means like jerk or a in kind oflik childish way, because my dad was not allowed to curse,. His mam was very religious when he was a young man. And so he he called people fish instead of jerk, a kind of suck around. So that's my samele story. But the reason i was listening to your podcat, actually, is unrelated. I have been curious for a long time about the word cairo practic, because it's a noun, right

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