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It was John McDonald’s goal that when we were finished with his high school English classes that we weren’t morons.

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Casagrande tackles the varied pronunciations of words that are considered accurate by linguists because, even if they sound wrong, so many people use them.

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Each is a very common term, and most are idioms. Their clues are all visual puns that consist of a word or two at the most, accompanied by oddly placed punctuation; this trick is nicely reflected ...