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Squirrelly Animal Verbs. 'People,' 'Peoples,' and 'Persons': Why It Matters.

Squirrelly Animal Verbs. 'People,' 'Peoples,' and 'Persons': Why It Matters.

Released Thursday, 1st April 2021
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Squirrelly Animal Verbs. 'People,' 'Peoples,' and 'Persons': Why It Matters.

Squirrelly Animal Verbs. 'People,' 'Peoples,' and 'Persons': Why It Matters.

Squirrelly Animal Verbs. 'People,' 'Peoples,' and 'Persons': Why It Matters.

Squirrelly Animal Verbs. 'People,' 'Peoples,' and 'Persons': Why It Matters.

Thursday, 1st April 2021
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8.17 To hog, to ram, to bird dog. We run through a fun list of animal-inspired verbs. Plus, amazingly, it wasn't that long ago that usage experts recommended "persons" instead of "people." And what's the deal with "peoples."

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