GRANDPA'S GRAMMAR: Sometimes a silent "e" just keeps words from ending with an awkward letter like u, v, or z. Like the word "bronze".

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Lembot_0002 3 points a year ago
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Zachariah 4 points a year ago

awkwarde

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Melatonin 3 points a year ago

We're all awkward. It's a feature, not a bug.

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A community to discuss and ask questions about English usage and grammar.

If your post refers to a specific English variant, please indicate it within square brackets (for instance [Canadian]).

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(Icon: entry "English" in the Oxford English Dictionary, 1933. Banner: page from Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale".)

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