Using determiners as #wordle answers is just plain demon--strative, nyt.

I'll show myself out.

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(#wordnerd #Englishnerd #rhetcomp factoid of the day: that sentence above is an example of a chiasmus ;)

You'll see chiastic patterns in a lot of sonnets and poems.)

The city of Adelanto, California has one of the most brutally honest and funny mottos I've seen. It'd be even funnier if it was unintentionally honest.

Adelanto bills itself as the City with Unlimited Possibilities.

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Spotted today: "…used a different tact in February."

The word "tact" was used incorrectly. The term "tack" is what the author (or editor) should have chosen.

To "change tack" has nautical origins, meaning adjusting sails with ropes called "tacks" in order to change direction. A sailing ship can "tack" into the wind, zig-zagging back and forth, using its sails as an airfoil.

The word "tact" is used to refer to diplomacy, politeness, or discretion, not a direction. There is only tact, not different tacts.

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