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Misspoken Identity
I watched an hour of cable television news recently, and that means two things: 1) The only newsworthy items in the world were what Senators Clinton and Obama think of each other and what issues Senator McCain was flip-flopping on that … Continue reading
No Regard for Irregardless
Irregardless isn’t a word; the word is regardless, which means despite or without regard. I’m going out regardless of the bad weather means I’m going out despite the bad weather or even though the weather is bad. The prefix –ir … Continue reading
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Site Updates
We’ve received a couple of questions lately about how to print out single entries from our site, so we checked it out to see what the problem was and how to correct it. It turns out that you actually can … Continue reading
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Most Important, Not Most Importantly
The correct phrase is most important, and the same goes for more important; they are often, if not always, shortened versions of what’s most important or what’s more important. Importantly means in an important way, just as slowly means in a … Continue reading
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You Might Be Sick, But You’re Not Nauseous
There’s a stomach flu going around, so I shouldn’t have been surprised when I heard someone in the supermarket announce I’m so nauseous. I mean, when you’re sick, it can get pretty bad for everyone around you. I don’t normally … Continue reading
28 Language Errors in One Post!
I did alot of ideating today and decided to start a new regular feature on the blog: a post that highlights all of the entries that Sherry and I have written in the past month. I thought that I would start … Continue reading
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Pushback to Pushback
Since pushback (or is it push back?) has started to replace resistance in nearly every conversation in the business world in this country, I’ve decided that it’s time for me to step in and single-handedly prevent yet another non-word from … Continue reading
And Yet, But Yet
I’ve noticed that many people are interested in the use and misuse of the coordinating conjunctions but yet and and yet, so I’ve re-written my Pick a Coordinating Conjunction, Any Coordinating Conjunction post in order to provide more precise information. … Continue reading
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2008
This falls more into the category of a language observation than a language abuse or grammar error, but it’s interesting to note that ever since the beginning of the 21st century, we’ve nearly unanimously changed the way in which we refer … Continue reading
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Tagged 2008, grammar, language, references to year, writing, Year references
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