Here a smack, there a smack
Disregarding the simplistic and unevidenced class-based pronouncement by David Lammy that a lack of parental self-confidence in disciplining children could be partly responsible for so profound a social problem as…
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Sic! The illiterati are out in force
Waterstones has outraged the grammar police by dropping the apostrophe from its logo. The Twittersphere is ablaze with the defence of a punctuation mark that Boots, Morrisons, and Debenhams seem…
Affect or effect
If you search for the words affect and effect on the web, you’ll find, generally speaking, that the advice to help you differentiate between the two words is to remember that…
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