Thursday, September 6, 2018

Paul Brians Two Recent Blog Posts + raise/raze

raise/raze 
To raze a building is to demolish it so thoroughly that it looks like it’s been scraped right off the ground with a razor. To raise a building is just the opposite: to erect it from the ground up.


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Two recent blog posts by Paul Brians address “rails and walls” and an interesting fact about a suffix in two forms.

https://commonerrorspodcast.wordpress.com/

We bid farewell to the podcast some time ago, but several episodes, starting with Episode 105: Government and Politics—More Than Just Words, covered the language of politics.