>>>>>>Good to see you posting, Grady.
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>>>>>>One of my grammar pet peeves is "less" instead of "fewer." The express lanes at all the grocery stores I shop at around here have "nn items or less" signs over all the express lanes. I am getting a lot better at letting trivial things go but a little voice in my head still wants to shout, "10 items or FEWER!"
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>>>>>>>Please add 'the most amount' to the list
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>>>>>>>>>>counterfeit fake government seals
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>>>>>>>>These days it's said that spelling and sentence construction doesn't matter as long as you're understood. In this case if readers don't know the root of "counterfeit", "fake" covers it.
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>>>>>"exact same" is one that makes me yell at my TV regularly
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>>>>Don't forget "very unique." ("Unique" is a superlative. Something is unique or it isn't. It could be "nearly unique," but "very unique" is meaningless.)
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>>>>Tamar
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>>>Yes. It seems teachers no longer care or the school system has forgotten the importance of correct English.
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>>I don't think we can simply blame schools. Kids hear language in many, many places and they repeat what they hear. (FWIW, at least some of my teachers would have objected to my using "kids" rather than "children" in that sentence.)
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>>Tamar
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>Things change.
>Senator Bob Corker of Tenn, usually a scrupulously courteous man (albeit a republican), got in a jam recently by using the word "midget" to disparage something small-minded.
>He was hounded into making a public apology to all the small people in the world.
>"Midget" has been moved to the not-PC list, it seems.
>I wonder who keeps that list?

IMO having to apologize for saying midget is political correctness run amok. What should we say instead? Vertically challenged?

It seems like a small issue to me (clapping hand over mouth).