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   Hilarious Misheard Lyrics You Still Are Singing
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   Weird Words For Crazy Urges We’ve All Had
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   Exercise Caution With These Telltale Idioms
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   Cracking The Code of Millennial Slang
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   Lyrics We Totally Didn’t Get As Kids
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   What’s The Difference Between “A While” And “Awhile”

   What is the difference between a while and awhile? Few word pairs capture the idiosyncrasies (“peculiar characteristics”) of the English language like a while and awhile do. Both of these terms are expressions of time, but one is written with a space while the other is one word. In fact, these two terms represent different parts of speech. The two-word expression a while is a noun phrase, consisting of the article …

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   BLURGH! You Fracking Smeghead!
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   ’Tis the Season for Explaining Common Holiday Phrases
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   Wild Dance Idioms That Will Get You Moving
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    Words (And Phrases) That Will Show Your Age
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    From The Trenches: Words Of World War I
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    What’s The #’s Real Name?

    How do we currently use the # symbol? On Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, you tag your friends with the @ symbol and you tag topics with the #. If you see something that says “#WordoftheDay,” the tweet or post has something to do with Word of the Day. And, once you click on that marked topic, you’ll likely see all public posts about it. It’s a …