On Language - Me, Myself and I - NYTimes.com
Why do we capitalize the word “I”? There’s no grammatical reason for doing so, and oddly enough, the majuscule “I” appears only in English.
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BBC NEWS | Magazine | Are you going forward? Then stop now
There is so much more to object to in "going forward". It clings to the tongues of speakers compelling them to utter it again and again. It is a grown up equivalent of the word "like", which seems to trip off the tongue of the average teenager every two or three waking seconds.
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The Eggcorn Database
This site is devoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns.
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Why can’t the English be more like the French? - Times Online
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The most commonly used words in the English language
Based on the combined results of British English, American English and Australian English surveys of contemporary sources in English: newspapers, magazines, books, TV, radio and real life conversations - the language as it is written and spoken today.
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George Orwell: Politics and the English Language
George Orwell on plain english, metaphor, cliché, language of politics
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D - E - F - I - N - I - T - E - L - Y
Brilliant! Hope this goes some way to curtailing the epidemic of definitely being spelt defiantly by intelligent people who really ought to know better.
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