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The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: English Established Food Hot Metaphors Peach Really Somebody Use Well

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A love letter is to be savored; a love email... is to be forwarded to all your friends, and probably laughed at.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Email Friends Laughed Letter Love Your

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Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

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Topics: Day Definition Dictionary Every Every Day Know Learned Looking Love Most Reading Them Up Use Words You

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If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Annoy Anything Definition Dictionary Guaranteed Habit Journalistic Starting Story

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Editor

Born: Unknown

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