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by Dr. Tilde Cedilla

BURNED UP:  Imagine the confusion of someone learning this amazing language.  We say our papers burned up in the fire, but the house burned down.  We're burned up when we're angry, and wish that so-and-so would come down so we could give him his comeuppance.

We can face up to a problem and face it down with the same result.  We can write down something, and the finished report is a writeup, but being written up is much worse than being written down.

At the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, we treat only native speakers, so, thankfully, we don't have to explain this.  We have enough to do with the disorder of believing a lot is a single word.

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