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Does it bother anyone else that the word “subtle” has a silent “b?” Is it ironic that the word subtle means understated? The b in subtle is, therefore, itself, subtle.
Grammar Guy Curtis Honeycutt talks about how the English language has evolved and why sometimes words have silent letters.
Grammar Guy Curtis Honeycutt explains splinter words: endings of words larger than suffixes that behave similarly.
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Grammar Guy Curtis Honeycutt writes a column about words that have slowly changed their meanings over time.