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		<title>Confused Word Pairs: Orient, Encase</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities Here&#8217;s something I wrote in AIS Writing Tips that I thought would work well here. Viewer Mail (Circa 1984): Confusing Word Pairs The late-night shows are in the news again, so as a shout-out to the longest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&#038;blog=2288817&#038;post=4305&#038;subd=languageandgrammar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Communicating with Tact, Confusing Word Pairs, and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities Just a quick reminder: This is not the only place where I post my language ramblings. Feel free to check out AIS Writing Tips, which is associated with my job at Penn State. I recently wrote about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&#038;blog=2288817&#038;post=4302&#038;subd=languageandgrammar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Write Good</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities &#160; A friend sent this along recently, and it&#8217;s worth a look (and maybe a laugh). Filed under: grammar, humor, language, writing Tagged: grammar, humor, language, language humor, writing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&#038;blog=2288817&#038;post=4288&#038;subd=languageandgrammar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Proof that Dictionaries Are Not Source for Proper Grammar: &#8220;Thx&#8221; Now in Dictionary</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities We at languageandgrammar.com have taken some criticism for saying things like &#8220;Dictionaries are a source of common usage, not necessarily correct grammar&#8221; (see What Does the Word Dictionary Mean?), but now that the Oxford Dictionary has added [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&#038;blog=2288817&#038;post=4282&#038;subd=languageandgrammar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Descriptivism Versus Prescriptivism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities This sounds more like the wars the erupt between descriptivists and prescriptivists to me: 4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, Chicago Manual Gang Violence. Filed under: humor Tagged: grammar, humor, language, The Onion, writing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&#038;blog=2288817&#038;post=4280&#038;subd=languageandgrammar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Subjunctive as a Way of Life!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities We&#8217;ve written about the subjunctive a couple of times (Subjunctive Uses Were, Not Was and I Wish I Was Wrong, But I&#8217;m Not), so this is a more philosophical post on the topic. The subjunctive is used [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&#038;blog=2288817&#038;post=4272&#038;subd=languageandgrammar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Managing Expectations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 04:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Managing expectations is one of the business terms that is effectively a trendy way of saying something in an indirect manner. I thought of the term today when the general manager the team with the longest consecutive streak of losing seasons in professional sports history, the Pittsburgh Pirates, talked about how the trade value for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&#038;blog=2288817&#038;post=4264&#038;subd=languageandgrammar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Vote Should Be Unanimous: It&#8217;s Electoral, not Electorial!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities We&#8217;re in the heart of election season, which means many things, one of the most annoying of which is how many people are going to say electorial instead of electoral. You&#8217;ll hear it from your friends. You&#8217;ll [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&#038;blog=2288817&#038;post=4257&#038;subd=languageandgrammar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Positive Language about Tropical Storm Isaac</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities Being a meteorologist and writer, I sometimes confuse myself, so let&#8217;s be clear: This is a language-related weather post, not a weather-related language post! Do They Want Hurricanes to Strengthen? Am I the only one who is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&#038;blog=2288817&#038;post=4249&#038;subd=languageandgrammar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Simple, Direct Language Is Always the Best Choice!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities I know it&#8217;s been a while, but we&#8217;re still here! And what better way to come back from a break than by focusing on the most important way to improve communication: Keep it simple and direct. Seriously, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&#038;blog=2288817&#038;post=4242&#038;subd=languageandgrammar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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