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Teach me: alone, on my own, by myself. When and how to use them.
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Next...
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formal way of saying rise to the challenge
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Think Lynne Truss may fall off her chair!
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what happened to "fewer"!?
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Hello magazine " a historic photoshoot with the prince"
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Quick! Help! I'm loath or I'm loathe?!
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"A future fair for all"
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If your surname ends with a vowel and s, how do you refer to your family? (grammatically, I mean, obviously!)
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Perhaps the worst spelling mistake seen this year?
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Would it be very pedantic of me to reply to this school/PTA email highlighting this <ahem> word confusion?
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Is Mrs an abbreviation?
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Paddy's Kebaby's
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Scotland's happy family that makes every family happy.
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Am I the only person annoyed by 'dc is 2.5 etc'
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I know I should be glad that DS is showing good knowledge of singular and plural and that he seems to have taught DD as well but....
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and the winner of the Most Inventive Use of The Apostrophe for 2010 is...
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Mildly Curious: Electric / Electricity
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just need to vent ....
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In principal or in principle?
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The Ryvita ad, "for ladies THAT crunch"...
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If a sentence starts with a number, should it be spelt out in letters?
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Blond and blonde
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WANT 2 L3ARN HOW 2 TYPE AND RAAD TEXT SPAAK?!????!! WTF LOL
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Why is it....
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A victory for pedantry!
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Does anyone feel a sense of disappointment?
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Footballers are a bunch of...
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Ha! Daily Mail get it wrong
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H "atich" and "haitch" - please explain!
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It's such a mine field or mined field?
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This sort of thing make me really angry
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Foul language on Mumsnet&#133;
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Punctuation when quoting
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Classic error - Netmums style.
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Addicting
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Should I return a Christmas present I've bought for ds because...
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Next Thursday?
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Port-au-Prince
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People who say their dc IS a summer baby when they are at school
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marks mispell repellent
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Ok then. Did The Times get it wrong?
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A "thread" is the subject, a "post" is a contribution to a thread.
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Daily Mail gets it wrong!
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Plait: why do we pronounce it 'platt' and not 'plate'?
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Tell me dear pedants - I don't like " speak to". Why?
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Punctuation and footnotes- style guide? Any academics or editors online?
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I have two examples from the last two days.
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Shall and will - can someone explain?
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Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah, Roma-roma-ma, GaGa, oo, la la
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