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What Roman togas have to do with today's elections. 'Home in' versus 'hone in.'

Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers.

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Origin of the 'stump speech'

Mignon recounts frontier stump speeches and how standing on a tree stump became shorthand for repeated campaign talks.

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