Nonplussed – English editing.
In standard use nonplussed means ‘surprised and confused’, as in she was nonplussed at his eagerness to help out. In…
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None – English editing
Some language purists maintain that none can take a singular verb, never a plural one:none of them is coming tonight…
Onto – English editing.
The preposition onto meaning ‘to a position on the surface of’, as in they fell off their stools onto the…
Niggardly – English editing.
Niggardly has no historical connection with nigger, but because it sounds like it, and probably because it is at the…
Nevertheless – English editing.
It is quite common to find nevertheless spelled ‘never the less’. Although this is how it was written many centuries…
Negroid – English editing.
The term Negroid belongs to a set of terms introduced by 19th-century anthropologists attempting to categorize human races. Such terms…
Negro – English editing.
The word Negro was adopted from Spanish and Portuguese and is first recorded in the mid 16th century. It remained…
Native American – English editing.
Native American is now the current accepted term in most contexts, particularly in the US, for a member of any…