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The English Language is a Convoluted Hot Mess and I Love It

But really, we all need to do better

R P Gibson
9 min readMay 16, 2021

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English is a slippery little devil, isn’t it? On the surface, it appears so simple, yet as a language, it contains so many exceptions, so many variations, so many contradictions, and so many gosh-darn words that mean the same gosh-darn thing.

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R P Gibson

Freelance writer of history and humour. Sometimes other stuff. I’ll never use a semicolon and you can’t make me. Click this: https://therpg.medium.com/subscribe