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A raid of her home uncovered copies of the illicit barcodes and a horde of glue sticks.
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Currently applying for Russian citizenship, Perkins will not relish his Australian citizenship and can hold dual passports.
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As well as relish, I'm not too hot on the use of dual there. Two would have been simpler.
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As well as relish, I'm not too hot on the use of dual there.
Arguably, you can't both not be too hot on and relish something at the same time. :)
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Arguably, you can't be both not too hot on something and relish it at the same time. :)
And I'm not overwhelmed by the comma either.
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It’s been an exacerbating week for Philip Isaac, domus bursar at King’s College, Cambridge University.
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ES Views: The Government is unfairly treating the self-employed
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Footage showed her stalking shoppers around supermarket isles
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Ah, the Isles of Aldi, beautiful at this time of year.
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If I may open this discussion up a bit, I don't think these are examples of people not knowing the English language, rather subs making mistakes in a high-pressure environment that values speed and volume above all else.
Yes, a good sub should spot them (although you do post some spurious examples, Oliver) but what is expected of a good sub these days is much more than was expected 20 years ago. Not to mention the fact that so much online content goes live without even being properly subbed by anyone.
Furthermore, orthographic distinctions between homophones are annoying for most and rarely serve a purpose other than marking the writer out as someone who's learned a set of rules. Yes, that's important for a media outlet because it can demonstrate that it hires well educated, diligent people, but there's no moral or scientific argument for things to be spelled a certain way. It just reflects the linguistic circumstances of how words came to be in our language and the decisions of early dictionary makers.
I feel that this thread is supposed to be a damning dossier of evidence of a supposed decline in - or even death of - the English language, when that's really not happening at all.
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Probably wrong thread, but when did pratfall become word?
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39255215I think I know where it comes from though, and it makes me happy.
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when did pratfall become word
In the 1930s according to the Merriam Webster dic
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@fizzy.bleach is spot on here.
I've also noticed a rise in homophone errors that I suspect is down to more and more people using the dictation software that is now built into everyone's phones. Yes, they should really re-read the text to pick up things like this, but everyone is working at such a high tempo these days that it's easy to miss.
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Nah, it is being replaced by 'basically'
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I suspect that the author of this article meant 'forecourt', not 'forefront':
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Well, I'd have thought the 'up' is redundant.