Did your teacher ever make you write a sentence over and over as punishment? That task is called a pensum. This is part of a complete episode.
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Did your teacher ever make you write a sentence over and over as punishment? That task is called a pensum. This is part of a complete episode.
Unparalleled misalignments are pairs of phrases in which the words in one phrase are each synonyms of the words in the other, but the phrases themselves mean different things. For example, the phrase blanket statement can be paired with cover story...
Jameela in Charlotte, North Carolina, says her family refers to their television’s remote control as the clicker, but her friends insist on calling it the remote. These devices go by other names as well, including doofer, flicker, zapper, and...