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Jerkwater

Something Rhymes with Purple

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Stationery and the Railway Time Table

Stationery e the station with the railway train ist with an a, isn't it? But stationery with an e is connected with the paper and the s and pens. Why is ther spelling different? Well, i like to think that for once we were quite logical in english. We have stationary meanings standing still, which goes again, back to that original latin. And then when we wanted to talk about pens and paper, et cetera, because it might have been quite confusing to have the same spelling. I liked to think that we put an e in there to differentiate the two meanings. They do go back to that same idea of standing still n in a fixed spot

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