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Minute or minutes?
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Ladies' Bags and Men's Bags?
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How do you pronounce chagrin?
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Read - oh how it can go wrong
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Does anyone actually say 'sixth'?
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Effect or affect?
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Luxurious or luxuriant?
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Gogo's Crazy Bones
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DD drives me mad with 'SO fun' now Apple top that with....
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Guardian style guide
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Is there a simple explanation of the difference between 'Although' and 'Though'?
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spelled or spelt
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The English Langauge Howlers Made By Sheiky's Colleagues: An Occasional Series
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Strictly couples
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Yr3 homework help. Past tense present tense....
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knife holding.
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I have apparently been using the apostrophe wrong for years, now i really want to know
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Wanted: Grammarian to help with cases
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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Gah. Can you email cbeebies? Blooming Chris and his 'Less than four sides'
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writers, freelancers, people who get comments on their texts. can we run a competition for the stupidest?
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Fisher Price toy ad
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AARRRGH AARRRRGH!! National Express trains have had me all lathered up in a frenzy!
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Feel my pain
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How do you pronounce these words?
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When did heart become a verb instead of a noun?
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Nicholas's or Nicholas'
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Slipping grammatical standards at BBC news
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You will love this, just printed out 50 flyers for a school social with "mum's night out" on them...
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Giving out
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Did nobody else look at that Cities supplement with the Guardian last Saturday?
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Definition of finite verbs?
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For pedants who'd love to be pirates really, I give you...
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Where do I live?
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Half a per cent
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Misuse of the word amnesty - handbag amnesty/book amnesty etc
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Should I be allowed to shoot teenagers with a water pistol for incorrect use and abuse of the word like ?
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I know that I have some nerve posting here...
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I do not like
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L'Oreal Age Re-perfect Re-Plumping! WTF?
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OK, so is it, "a higher plane of existence," or, "a higher plain of existence?"
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the woman doing the voiceover for the Horizon Presidential science documentary keeps saying nukular!
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BABY ON BOARD - who gets 'on board' a car?
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PMSL is starting to bother me. It's wrong isn';t it?
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Is "monkey" a generic term for a primate in American English?
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Full stops
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The Jolly Fellow's Inn
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please explaint eh difference between "whilst" and "while"
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Domestic Violence Co-ordinator
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spelling mistake in Tip of the Day?
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