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Sometimes something you think is a slip or a mistake, perhaps a product of happenstance, is not that.
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Rails are thin, and so are rakes and pencils and many other things.
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While talking about sheep as a flock may sound unremarkable, a murder of crows sounds much more playful.
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Michigan bills awaiting the governor’s signature would require government agencies to provide language-access services for people with limited English proficiency.
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Gross food is disgusting, but a gross error may not be. And our gross income is something else entirely.
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Very few of us are enamored with, of, or by potholes. If you’re among the aforementioned few, we’d like a word.
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There’s all the variation in pronunciation that we don’t judge, and then there’s the relatively small percentage of variation out there that we do judge.
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We physically lug around luggage and baggage at the airport. Metaphorically though, we’re carrying around baggage.
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A near miss doesn’t hit anything, as opposed to a near miss hitting something but almost or nearly missing it.