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  • TWTS: You can tuna fish, but you may not need the "fish"

    TWTS: You can tuna fish, but you may not need the "fish"
    Oct 12 2025
    Given that tuna is a fish, it can seem unnecessary to call that out in the compound tuna fish.
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    5 min
  • TWTS: Here's what's up with "up"

    TWTS: Here's what's up with "up"
    Oct 6 2025
    When we eat up or fix up or heal up or hurry up, we’re not actually moving in an upward direction.
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    5 min
  • TWTS: "Funnily enough" is more than enough

    TWTS: "Funnily enough" is more than enough
    Sep 29 2025
    Funnily enough, two listeners wrote to us this summer about the phrase funnily enough.
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    5 min
  • TWTS: Just ring the dumb bell

    TWTS: Just ring the dumb bell
    Sep 22 2025
    Working out with dumbbells may be a fitness craze now, but the fitness craze that started it all sounds even better.
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    5 min
  • TWTS: Some would just as soon say "just assume"

    TWTS: Some would just as soon say "just assume"
    Sep 15 2025
    If you’d just as soon not learn about an eggcorn that some language pundits really dislike, then you might want to stop reading now.
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    5 min
  • TWTS: Fit to be furious

    TWTS: Fit to be furious
    Sep 8 2025
    We can be angry or infuriated or outraged or furious or livid or incensed, all of which make us fit to be tied.
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    5 min
  • TWTS: When you're wary of confusing "weary" and "wary"

    TWTS: When you're wary of confusing "weary" and "wary"
    Aug 31 2025
    Usage guide writers, seeing some confusion afoot, tell us to be wary about the distinction between "wary” and “weary.”
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    5 min
  • TWTS: The many faces of "mug"

    TWTS: The many faces of "mug"
    Aug 25 2025
    Even though "mug shots" do not involve drinking or "mugs" in that sense, we can draw a historical connection between these two mugs.
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    5 min