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Who Is Benjamin Dreyer on Science Rules! With Bill Nye?
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Benjamin Dreyer is the copy chief at Random House and the author of Dreyer's English, a New York Times bestseller. On Science Rules! with Bill Nye, in the episode Language Rules!, he talks through how the rules of English apply and why some of those rules should change. The episode also takes a call from Allyson, who asks why the classic "i before e" rule barely applies, and it includes two Scripps National Spelling Bee Octochamps who went twenty rounds without a misspelling.
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