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The End of the Year Assessment Shopping
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> On Mon, 5 Jan 2015 16:58:40 -0000, "Ophelia"
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>>"graham" > wrote in message
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>>> On 05/01/2015 8:17 AM, graham wrote:
>>>> On 05/01/2015 6:15 AM, S Viemeister wrote:
>>>>> On 1/4/2015 10:25 PM, graham wrote:
>>>>>> On 04/01/2015 7:56 PM, S Viemeister wrote:
>>>>>>> On 1/4/2015 1:31 PM, graham wrote:
>>>>>>>> I so often hear (and read) people use "bring" when they mean
>>>>>>>> "take",
>>>>>>>> even educated people who ought to know better. Then there are those
>>>>>>>> ignoramuses who use "misnomer" to mean any mistake, and those that
>>>>>>>> mix
>>>>>>>> up past participles.
>>>>>>>> Furthermore, why do people say or write "off of" when "off" is
>>>>>>>> sufficient?
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>>>>>>> Recently, I've seen 'flaunt' used instead of 'flout', and 'adverse'
>>>>>>> instead of 'averse'...
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>>>>>> People often use "substantive" now instead of "substantial". The
>>>>>> difference isn't that subtle.
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>>>>> Enormity is another word which is frequently misused.
>>>>> I've given up on decimate versus devastate.
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>>>> A Montana farmer was on the radio a while back reporting on losing some
>>>> of his cattle.
>>>> "The herd was disseminated"
>>>> Graham
>>> Come to think of it, he said: "literally disseminated!"
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>>lol
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> Maybe he meant they were not artificially inseminated ??
Who knows LOL
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