1. I understand the impulse to eulogize George H. W. Bush, who possessed some virtues that are keenly missed at this particularly moment, but it behoves us to get real.
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or you could strike “keenly”, “particularly”, and “it behoves us”. same meaning less canadian words
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Fewer. Fewer Canadian words.
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"I'd always thought the English version of the word - 'behove' ... was 'correct' and the American version - 'behoove' .. was a corruption. It turns out that 'behoove' is the historical form and 'behove' is a version derived from reading the word in books and mispronouncing it."
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Often the case that American English held on to older versions of English words.https://wordsmith.org/board/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=208457 …
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