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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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Protected: Discourse and Philosophy: Applications to Social Conflict
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Using ‘literally’ metaphorically is literally spreading like wildfire (The Guardian 24-10-2014)
Mark Twain, F Scott Fitzgerald and James Joyce all did it. (HW Fowler disapproved.) Should ‘literally’ be used to mean its opposite?
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Word processing (what is a word?)
The question might seem easy.
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Let’s eat Grandma! How to use, and not use the comma
‘If you could edit your past, what would you change?’ ‘I’d get rid of all the commas’ – Peter Carey A misplaced comma can provide hours of fun on the web but sabotage the meaning of a sentence.
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David Crystal: Why grammar lessons should be renamed ‘understanding language’
It’s an exciting time for grammar, according to the experts. But there’s a need for fresh thinking and the word itself can be misleading