The New Clear Option

I’d like to make a quick pass of today’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal strip: First, I think it’s funny. I get the joke, and it’s a good one. SMBC is a great comic, and one that I read regularly through my RSS reader. That’s my disclaimer, since I’m about to pick nits, but they do […]

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Throwing in the Vowel

If you’re a native English speaker, you probably learned in elementary school that there are five or six vowels: a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. The letters that aren’t vowels are consonants. It’s a nice enough rule of thumb, and serves many purposes well. But it’s not quite accurate. First, there is a […]

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