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9 Books to Give Your Favorite Language Lover Metaphors Be With You: An A to Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations by Mardy Grothe Metaphors have been used for thousands of years by writers, poets and great thinkers. But if you've ever tried to convey feelings of despair or extreme joy, you'll know that metaphors can be valuable and compelling even in everyday conversation. ...Read More 12/05/2016 8:05am View           5 Gift Books for Children Who Love Language Du Iz Tak? by Carson Ellis Du iz tak? What is that? As a tiny shoot unfurls, two damselflies peer at it in wonder. When the plant grows taller and sprouts leaves, some young beetles arrive to gander, and soon-with the help of a pill bug named Icky-they wrangle a ladder and build a tree fort. But this is the wild world, after all, and something horrible is waiting to swoop down-booby voobeck!-only to be carried off in turn.  ...Read More 12/03/2016 12:14pm View           Limber Up Because English Is Flexible Anthropologist Edward Sapir once wrote, “unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak.” Sapir was talking about the irregularities of language. For me, this leakiness is especially evident in what I think of as doppelgrammar words. ...Read More 12/01/2016 9:05pm View           What Does It Mean to ‘Read the Riot Act’? To read the riot act means to put someone on notice that their behavior is unacceptable. Antisocial. Just plain wrong! When you were a kid, your mom probably read you the riot act many times. Maybe when you sat on the couch with muddy clothes. Or showed up at 4:00 a.m. when you had a midnight curfew. ...Read More 12/01/2016 12:03pm View               FROM QUICK AND DIRTY TIPS Get More Grammar Girl Visit the website. Subscribe to the Grammar Girl podcast at iTunes or via RSS. Find Grammar Girl books, gear, and more at the Quick and Dirty Tips store. Have Questions? Search the Quick and Dirty Tips website. We have more than 600 articles about grammar and language. There's a good chance your question has already been covered.                 Best wishes, (and the Quick and Dirty Tips Team)                 Want more tips? If this was forwarded to you by a friend and you'd like to receive future tips, you can sign up here. Please don't use the subscribe/unsubscribe link at the bottom of the page because this will overwrite your friend's subscription. (If this came directly to you, you can use the subscribe/unsubscribe link below to manage your subscription.)                 FOLLOW ME

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