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Friday, 26 August 2011

On being persuaded about convince

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A correspondent sends in the following passage from the Times (30 July): 'In Adam Sage’s article about Dominique Strauss-Kahn (July 23)...
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Monday, 1 August 2011

On 'Marley and me/I'

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A correspondent writes with a query about the title of the book and film Marley And Me . He notes that some people think it should be Marley...
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Monday, 18 July 2011

On identifying phishermen

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Correspondents (of the radio kind) have been keeping the phone hot this week in the wake of a report claiming that spelling mistakes on web...
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Friday, 15 July 2011

On enquiring about inquiry

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A correspondent reports something he was reading in The Times this week: 1356 BST: Jemima Khan has a complaint about the police investigati...
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Tuesday, 5 July 2011

On mouth-filled speech

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A correspondent writes with an enquiry that needs to be quoted in full: 'This morning I tried simultaneously to brush my teeth and talk....
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Monday, 4 July 2011

On texted vs texed

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A correspondent writes to ask about the past tense of the verb to text . He uses texted but is aware that many people say text , as in She ...
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Wednesday, 29 June 2011

On bottom

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A correspondent from Shakespeare's Globe writes to ask whether bottom ever meant 'posterior' in Elizabethan England. He has not...
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