The other morning on my way in to work I passed the van of a pharmacy whose slogan is ‘Dispensing quality’, and some linguistically minded prankster had inserted ‘with’ between the two words, showing what a difference one small preposition…
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It all depends on the prepositions
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Posted in Grammar, Proofreading/copy-editing, Vocabulary
Posted in Grammar, Proofreading/copy-editing, Vocabulary
Not so redonkulous? New words in English
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and point-devise companions; such rackers of orthography Holofernes in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost (http://shakespeare.mit.edu/lll/lll.5.1.html) While neologisms such as…