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Militant Grammarian Shares Her Favorite Words

KUAF | By Katherine Shurlds

Published March 16, 2017 at 12:56 PM CDT

The English language has thousands of words and our Militant Grammarian, Katherine Shurlds, has a few favorites to share.

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