Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Why we have both 'a' and 'an.' What does it mean to be lonely? Sufficiency.

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920. Once you start thinking about it, it's weird that we have both "a" and "an." It gets even weirder from there! Plus, modern loneliness, and its solutions, are quite different from what they were when the word was first coined. We look at the history of this formerly rare word.

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