Businesses that don't bother checking their websites, journalists who write gibberish and balderdash, professionals who can't take the extra time and effort to spell-check and proofread, newspapers that turn tragedy into farce through solecisms, plus the odd guide to solving common grammatical difficulties…
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Saturday 6 February 2016
Right word, wrong form, # 5
The wrong adjective on this root is used here to describe participants in a recent promotional email, which thus ends up accidentally insulting the other booksellers who use the Abebooks portal:
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