Use and abuse. Oh, and prejudice

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Phenomena (singular, apparently).
Ex-cetera (still)
Lorandorder
Soo xx

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Expresso…

Carinthia.xx

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Consonant clusters seem to be very hard for many people. Artic.

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This has brightened my day.

‘…the last act that you do for your loved one, (unless you’re an Executer)’

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“Like stealing candles from a baby.”

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I am reading a book published in the 1930s in which someone deplores “ekseterer”.

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Those awful announcements on the underground: 'Eggzit here for… "

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While what you want is to bacon it here.

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This doesn’t irk me, as such, but it is certainly bizarre use of language from Professor Neil Ferguson of SAGE, quoted in this morning’s BBC news: "He also says “it is clear” two doses of vaccine offers a high level of protection and even those who do get infected are “almost certainly probably 50% less infectious”.

Almost certainly probably, WTF does that mean?

Good to know we can rely on a top scientist for precision.

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I discovered in myself today a prejudice against the use of “where” in contexts which cry out for either “whereby” or “in which”. “This is a situation where we find people being baffled”, for example, really wants to be “this is a situation in which we find people being baffled”, and “the way where the explanation is clear” desperately yearns to be “the way whereby the explanation is clear”.

I am thinking of founding a Society For The Protection Of.

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You have also occasionally fulminated on the matter of “where” in a place that “when” might fill better.

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And even in this thread, back in January.

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All right, what is the excuse for the “as” in this sentence?

“Then I hope you will find the solution to this problem equally as easily.”

(This is linked to a previous gripe but I cba to find it.)

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Equally easy is more elegant I would think

But I could be wrong…

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He is trying to find a solution, so “easily” (as in “locate it easily”) is necessary. The “as” seems to me to be redundant. Or else the “equally” is, of course.

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Another redundancy is here: “it sounds like they’re in as bad of trouble as we are”.

Of? Why?

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Splendid typo caught in the wild:
two kids with additional nerds

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PosterX, 20:45 …‘normalising of eating tiny amounts or having a very low bum because we’ve all “lost sight of what a normal weight looks like”.’

PosterX, 20:46 ‘Low Bmi. Not bum.’

Gus < howls >

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This isn’t incorrect but it jars every time I see it:
‘like a tonne of bricks’.
It should be ton, dammit. Even if it shouldn’t. Bah!

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“Short or long ton?”

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