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Saturday 10 May 2014
Not Washed or Cooked, # 134
I usually let these go by, or post snippets from them on the Mangling English Facebook page. However, in addition to the usual syntactical singularities, this has a few spelling oddities worth sharing:
fallowing for following; recentely; instantely; syntax
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