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Thursday, January 12, 2017
Amphiboly
amphiboly
\am-FIB-uh-lee\
noun
1. ambiguity of speech, especially from uncertainty of the grammatical construction rather than of the meaning of the words, as in
The Duke yet lives that Henry shall depose
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