Commonly Confused Words: Have you ever used the word access where you should have used excess? Or Have you got confused about which to use-affect or effect? Well, don’t worry as this is not unusual.

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Sample sentences have long been a standard feature of many online and offline dictionaries. Starting today, Google Translate will also feature sentences that put translated words into context. Unlike ...

Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Vol. 175, No. 4 (April 2018), pp. 947-968 (22 pages) There is an ongoing debate about the meaning of lexical ...