Sence, Since, or Sense: What is the Spelling?
Yesterday, my eight-year-old daughter had a shocking revelation about commonly misspelled words as I looked over a story she was writing: “You mean sence isn’t a word?!” she gasped. “Then …
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Yesterday, my eight-year-old daughter had a shocking revelation about commonly misspelled words as I looked over a story she was writing: “You mean sence isn’t a word?!” she gasped. “Then …
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