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 Originally Posted by spoonitnow
The Associated Press Stylebook gives context clues.
Just admit that you heard it somewhere and ran with it and leave it at that.
Linguists who invented the term used 'cues'. They still do.
https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar...c+context+cues
Laypeople who heard 'cue' and thought they heard 'clue' changed it to 'context clues'.
And it doesn't matter because everyone knows it's the same basic idea behind both terms. It was fun watching you google yourself silly over it though.
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