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Emanate and - erm - what? from loiswakeman 297 days old

Hot on the heels of the last post, another misplaced word, except I am not sure quite what the writer meant. "Microsoft has developed BlueTrack - the ...

Flout and flaunt from loiswakeman 300 days old

[ ... ] grasp on English vocabulary. Flaunt means to show off or parade, often outrageously. Lawyers might flaunt their wealth, for example. Flout ...

How not to promote one's business from loiswakeman 440 days old

"Hi, Eshot software will allow {company} to create full colour interesting emails using basic computer skills, broadcast that email to your list of ...

'It just has to be fit for business' - really? from loiswakeman 499 days old

[ ... ] and slapdash English, I really don't - it is so prevalent and so many people are careless about what they write. Sigh. As for 'ERP, CRM, HR' - ...

Elegant variation from loiswakeman 559 days old

[ ... ] of 'English as she is spoke'. This one caught my eye: "Greetings, brakes a software? Qualitative replacement is necessary!" I guess they ...

You *must* try this product - not from loiswakeman 560 days old

"English and grammer software http://whatabunchofspeciouscrap.com Sale 25% Discount Our World Wide patent writing tools enable simple sentences to ...

Discrete and discreet from loiswakeman 568 days old

"Very discrete shipping and billing" - spam message subject Actually, what the twerp is suggesting is discretion, not discreteness, for his/her dubious ...

Rein and reign from loiswakeman 584 days old

"November: With the presidential election looming, George Bush prepares reluctantly to relinquish the reigns of power " - Practical Builder magazine's ...

Exasperate and exacerbate from loiswakeman 590 days old

"Dr Charlesworth added that lack of trust about SUDS has also been exasperated by poorly fitted systems " - NFU Countryside magazine, March 2008. I ...

Amount and number from loiswakeman 600 days old

[ ... ] A native English speaker will sense (if not knowing why) that amount of sessions is wrong, because amount refers to a measurable quantity of ...