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    <title>20 misused English words that make smart people look silly — Quartz</title>
    <dc:date>2016-09-22T11:46:33+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We’re all tempted to use words that we’re not too familiar with. If this were the only problem, I wouldn’t have much to write about. That’s because we’re cautious with words we’re unsure of and, thus, they don’t create much of an issue for us. It’s the words that we think we’re using correctly that wreak the most havoc. We throw them around in meetings, e-mails and important documents (such as resumes and client reports), and they land, like fingernails across a chalkboard, on everyone who has to hear or read them. We’re all guilty of this from time to time, myself included.
When I write, I hire an editor who is an expert in grammar to review my articles before I post them online. It’s bad enough to have a roomful of people witness your blunder—it’s something else entirely to stumble in front of 100,000! The point is, we can all benefit from opportunities to sharpen the saw and minimize our mistakes. Often, it’s the words we perceive as being more correct or sophisticated that don’t really mean what we think they do. There are 20 such words that have a tendency to make even really smart people stumble.
Have a look to see which of these commonly confused words throw you off.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2014-04-02T13:38:46+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I will always stick to British (Australian) spelling, but the rules of punctuation vary more subtly between British- and American-English; I’d like to pluck the most common sense rules from both.

This is an absolutely incomplete, personal reference. When something is in question, I plan to document the opinions of multiple books, drawing my own conclusions and setting my own rules for style.]]></description>
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    <title>Literally Indefensible — I.M.H.O. — Medium</title>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Your protestations about “literally” are literally wrong

“Have we literally broken the English language?” asks Martha Gill in The Guardian today. The problem, such as it is, seems to be that the definition of “literally” has been updated in some dictionaries. “This might be the most unforgivable thing dictionaries have ever done,” says Samantha Rollins, anthropomorphizing bound stacks of paper, echoing the sentiments of literally 50% of Twitter.

Well, let’s see about that.]]></description>
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    <title>Either and Neither</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-17T21:47:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.learnamericanenglishonline.com/Orange%20Level/O17%20Either%20and%20Neither.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Either" and "neither" are used in almost the same way as "so" and "too," but they are used with negative verbs.

Examples:

I didn't get enough to eat, and you didn't either.

or

I didn't get enough to eat, and neither did you.

Pay attention to word order. "Either" goes at the end of the sentence after the negative helping verb, and "neither" goes after the conjunction, then the helping verb, and then the subject.

It's important to notice that words following "neither" are not negative. You shouldn't use double negatives in English.]]></description>
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