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Further can act for further or farther, but farther can't act for further. Something abstract (like time or processes) can't be "farther," only further.

 

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There is no "unthaw," but un-thaw could be used in literature if the stress of the action was more important or meaningful in this form vs. freeze or refreeze. Treat on a case-by-case basis.

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EuroEnglish

 

The European Commission have just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had room for improvement and has accepted a five year plan that would be known as "EuroEnglish."

 

In the FIRST year, "S" will replace the soft "C". Sertainly this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "C" will be dropped in favour of the "K". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the SEKOND year when troublesome "PH" will be replased with "F", this will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.

 

In the THIRD year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated letter kombinations are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters that have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also al wil agre that the horid silent "E"'s in the languag are disgrasful and should be removd.

 

In the FOURTH year peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "TH" with "Z" and "W" with "V". During ze FIFZ year ze unesesary "O" kan be droped from vords kontaining "OU" and similar alterations vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinatons of leters.

 

After zis FIFZ yer ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to komunikat viz ech ozer.

 

"ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU !!!!!"

 

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I see these confused a lot:

 

excessively/exceedingly

implicit/explicit

distinct/distinctive

prior to/before

imply/infer

libel/slander

Concept/concetion

pragmatic/practical

subject (to)/subjected (to)

 

Nice 'fro. Here's a list for ya Snugtop, from a prof of mine from WSU. Start at this page first (where he can keep track of his hit count), then click on "go to list of errors."

 

Paul Brians' Common Errors in English

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