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  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on November 20, 2021October 10, 2021
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The difference between discreet and discrete

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on November 16, 2021October 8, 2021

Discreet is probably the more familiar word, and is usually used to refer to people,…

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English is hard

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on March 22, 2021February 26, 2021

  I teach English for a living. English is my mother tongue, but I speak…

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That didn’t turn out well…

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on December 17, 2020December 6, 2020

The perils of dangling modifiers…

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Daily Mail with its daily fails – can you spot them?

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on August 28, 2020August 2, 2020

When I studied journalism I quickly learned that many of the best journalists had ghastly…

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When language fails you

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on November 29, 2019October 14, 2019
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Great explanation of their vs there vs they’re

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on August 19, 2019August 9, 2019
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Ah, punctuation

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on June 7, 2019April 2, 2019
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Spot the Daily Mail’s Grammar Fails

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on May 20, 2019May 19, 2019

Can you spot all of them? There is at least one in each image.  …

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Oops – Daily Mail does not know the difference between peddling and pedalling

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on April 14, 2019February 14, 2019

  If anyone is not sure of the difference, this below is pedalling crack around…

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