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2. Common English usage misconceptions - Wikipedia

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   Perceived violations of correct English usage elicit visceral reactions in many people. For example, respondents to a 1986 BBC poll were asked to submit "the three points of grammatical usage they most disliked". Participants stated that their noted points "'made their blood boil', 'gave a pain to their ear', 'made them shudder', and 'appalled ...

3. English usage controversies - Wikipedia

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   English is spoken worldwide, and the Standard Written English grammar generally taught in schools around the world will vary only slightly. Nonetheless, disputes can sometimes arise: for example, it is a matter of some debate in India whether British , American , or Indian English is the best form to use.

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   The idea that one can construct a grammatically correct sentence consisting of nothing but repetitions of "buffalo" was independently discovered several times in the 20th century. The earliest known written example, "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo", appears in the original manuscript for Dmitri Borgmann 's 1965 book Language on Vacation ...

5. Wikipedia talk : List of English contractions

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   The two main reasons for contractions are to make speaking quicker and to make writing quicker. Since changing "right" to "rt" only removes 3 characters, whilst changing "Honorable" to "Hon" removes 7, the correct course of action might be to classify "Honorable"=>"Hon" as a valid contraction, but "Right"=>"Rt" as invalid.

6. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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   Colorless green ideas sleep furiously (Noam Chomsky): example that is grammatically correct but based on semantic combinations that are contradictory and therefore would not normally occur. Hold the news reader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers. [25]

7. Wikipedia talk : Common grammatical errors

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   If I had known this I would have done this is grammatically correct but if I knew this I would have done this is not correct or are they both correct? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.57.225.109 18:34, August 29, 2009 (UTC) Disagree vehemently with 1st bullet - the Brits have it right.