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You might have seen T-shirts that announce "Silently correcting your grammar." No matter your age or education, there are times when most of us feel uncertain about our use of spoken and written language.
Alissa Wetherbee of Ellsworth, Maine, thinks (correctly, in my opinion) the word 'lumberjill' should appear in the dictionary right next to 'lumberjack.'