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  2. Today’s NYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram and Answers ... - AOL

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    For every 3 non-theme words you find, you earn a hint. Hints show the letters of a theme word. If there is already an active hint on the board, a hint will show that word’s letter order.

  3. Today’s NYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram and Answers for Monday ...

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    For every 3 non-theme words you find, you earn a hint. Hints show the letters of a theme word. If there is already an active hint on the board, a hint will show that word’s letter order.

  4. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.

  5. Linguistic prescription - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic prescription [a] is the establishment of rules defining publicly preferred usage of language, [1] [2] including rules of spelling, pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, etc. Linguistic prescriptivism may aim to establish a standard language, teach what a particular society or sector of a society perceives as a correct or proper form, or advise on effective and stylistically apt ...

  6. Prescription - Wikipedia

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    In general, the word prescriptive refers to refer to normative judgments, i.e. judgments about what is good or bad, such as: Prescriptive analytics, third and final phase of business analytics; Linguistic prescriptivism, the laying down of normative language rules; Prescriptive (normative) economics, branch of economics that incorporates value ...

  7. Traditional grammar - Wikipedia

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    Syntax is the set of rules governing how words combine into phrases and clauses. It deals with the formation of sentences, including rules governing or describing how sentences are formed. [22] In traditional usage, syntax is sometimes called grammar, but the word grammar is also used more broadly to refer to various aspects of language and its ...

  8. Eventually these words will all be translated into big lists in many different languages and using the words in phrase contexts as a resource. You can use the list to generate your own lists in whatever language you're learning and to test yourself.

  9. Prescriptive grammar - Wikipedia

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