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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Those are two that have troubled me as well.

Even in law school where some of the law students were former journalists some of these words caused problems. This was at the University of Minnesota Law School. My First Year Legal Writing Instructor Monica L., asked a group of us about some of these words and none of us could give really good answers. This was before cell phones and quick access to many sites where you could find such information quickly.

Tal - my Mom was an English teacher and librarian (medical library). I was drilled with rules, spelling, sentence structure, etc. (Never leave a participle dangling.) Our language has been destroyed by so called journalists who can't spell or use proper sentence structure. And then there is autocorrect - the bane of of our generation. And so called internet dictionaries often misspell words as well

Ok, I have girded my loins against those who will find that I have misspelled a word or used an adverb instead of a noun. I will accept complaints and corrections, but you must diagram your sentences for them to be considered legitimate.