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[6] The phrase is introduced in the first chapter. [7] The first example is of a visitor to Oxford. The visitor, upon viewing the colleges and library, reportedly inquires, "But where is the University?" The visitor's mistake is presuming that a University is part of the category "units of physical infrastructure", rather than that of an ...
daily regimen) (darker than [comparative]) (DC, direct current) (de rigueur) death knell (deciding how) (deep-seated) (kelvins) (depending on) (depending on whom you)
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The following list, of about 350 words, is based on documented lists [4] [10] of the top 100, 200, or 400 [3] most commonly misspelled words in all variants of the English language, rather than listing every conceivable misspelled word. Some words are followed by examples of misspellings:
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously was composed by Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures as an example of a sentence that is grammatically well-formed, but semantically nonsensical. The sentence was originally used in his 1955 thesis The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory and in his 1956 paper "Three Models for the ...
“The biggest mistake people make with taxes is poor bookkeeping,” said Doug Lynam, director of educator retirement services at LongView Asset Management. “As a general rule, if you don’t ...
Filling out the Free Application for Student Aid form -- better known as a FAFSA -- can be long and arduous, yet yield thousands of dollars in subsidized loans for students. Due to the amount of ...