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Breaking point: is the writing on the wall for the paragraph? (The Guardian 22/5/2015)
If the statistics are to be believed, by the end of this sentence, I’ll have lost most of you. Because according to some estimates, the average time spent on a webpage is 15 seconds.
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What exactly are our rules comprised of? (The Economist 23 April 2015)
MIXED reactions greeted the news in February that a man had edited thousands of Wikipedia articles with a single, special passion. His mission?
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Anaphora hot. Anaphora cold. Politicians’ rhetoric sounds tired and old (Mind your language, 21 April 2015)
The consequences of overestimating our own abilities can be grave.
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Protected: Discourse and Philosophy: Applications to Social Conflict
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Is it time we agreed on a gender-neutral singular pronoun? (The Guardian, 30 Jan 2015)
Some argue we need one for socially progressive reasons. Others simply want one to perfect their writing. But so far more than a hundred attempts have failed
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Night of the living dead nouns (The Economist 18/9/2014)
VERBING nouns annoys a lot of people.