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		<title>Writing Wednesday: 8 Sayings That Don&#8217;t Mean What You Think They Do</title>
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		<title>Writing Wednesday: 10 Great Idiomatic Expressions from Other Languages</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here at the Vancouver-based Endpaper Blog we write our posts in English, but we appreciate literature written in a variety of languages from around the globe. After all, just because we aren&#8217;t fluent in all the world&#8217;s languages doesn&#8217;t mean we can&#8217;t celebrate some great foreign expressions. In the past, we&#8217;ve taken a look at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Writing Wednesday: 15 Words and Phrases to Borrow from Foreign Languages</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Searching for that perfect word or phrase to use in your writing can be a frustrating endeavour. The thesaurus isn&#8217;t turning up anything that quite captures what you&#8217;re trying to express and you know the perfect word choice is just beyond your reach. You need something with that certain je ne sais quoi. That&#8217;s right, the French language [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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