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Wednesday 8 October 2014
Not Washed or Cooked, # 170
Dr Faustus found this typographical error in a survey:
The final sentence doesn’t read well either, with its cumbersome ‘You are able’ and its superfluous ‘different’.
subect; You are able to add up to 3 different degrees
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