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Penultimate. Veni, Vidi, Vici. Smidge.

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

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Grammar girl is your friendly guide to the english language. We talk about writing, history, rules and cool staff. To day we'll talk about words from caesar's time. And my editor and i will say you from ruining your relationship by using the word penultimate wrong. The name of the town that looks like berlin, connecticut, is actually pronounced berlin. Also last week, i speculated that world war two troops may have had cake in their rations, giving rise to the term cake hole for your mouth. But i couldn't find any evidence that they did. It looks like pound cake wasn't ded in rations until 19 58. So it couldn't

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