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Before Wikipedia: The Encyclopaedia Britannica Posted by on Apr 26, 2018

Before there was Google and Wikipedia, the source of all knowledge for English speakers was the vast, multi-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica. Many homes had shelves devoted to it, teachers and scholars depended on it, and its prestigious reputation among such publications has remained unsurpassed for over three centuries, though much of that reputation may have depended…

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Vocabulary Old and New Posted by on Jul 13, 2012

I was recently reading an article* about how technology has been changing our lives and how older products (and ways of doing things) are being replaced by newer products (and ways of doing things).  This brought up some very interesting English vocabulary that I would like to share in this blog.  Below I will introduce…

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