I don’t think that cynical and sardonic have the same meaning.
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Have you noticed the endearing/enduring confusion?
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I was surprised by the use of eyewatering to describe a huge amount of money.
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I was struck by the idiom school French, offered as a description of the kind of French that many people have in Australia.
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To beg the question was, in logic, to base one’s answer on an assumption that had not been proved.
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Is Identify a synonym for determine?
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I do not like – read that as understatement – the use of infamous to mean ‘famous’.
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Getting our heads around the negatives…
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Slippage in meaning …
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