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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 1 Dec 2015

    The 58 most commonly misused words and phrases (in which I take a rare stance of language purist):http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-58-most-commonly-misused-words-and-phrases-a6754551.html …

    8:15 AM - 1 Dec 2015
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      2. (an)TonyM42‏ @wowbaggerish 1 Dec 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        .@sapinker Correct use of 'enormity' was new to me. Thank you.

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      3. Marie Boran‏Verified account @marievonboran 1 Dec 2015
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        @wowbaggerish @sapinker I was just thinking the same thing!

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      4. (an)TonyM42‏ @wowbaggerish 1 Dec 2015
        Replying to @marievonboran

        @marievonboran @sapinker On reflection, I should also confess to the incorrect pronunciation of 'homogeneous'. Sigh.

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      5. Marie Boran‏Verified account @marievonboran 1 Dec 2015
        Replying to @wowbaggerish

        @wowbaggerish @sapinker I began using the correct pronunciation after taking a stats class.

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      1. preger‏ @PregerPreger 1 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @krieghofer That's very helpful. Still struggling with this language. Even after >10 years on the island...

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      1. Sonya / @sonya@scholar.social‏ @sonyamcchristie 1 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker - Glad to see 'begging the question' was high up on the list. :o)

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      1. AmieDemA 💡‏ @versvoeten2 1 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker bemused can also mean: Listen to a Muse song and not having te slightest idea what's it about. (Which is always te case)

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      1. Timothy Auger‏ @timothy_auger 1 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker Should have included pry/prise and masterful/masterly.

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      1. Emil‏ @ELLMMM 1 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker a minor bone to pick: a melting pot is, in fact, homogeneous, no?

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      1. Anakreontas Mentis‏ @AnakreontasM 1 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker I wonder why criterion/criteria preserves the original Greek rule for plural. Why not criterions?

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      1. Evidently Simon‏ @SimonAntenen 1 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker Also 'evacuate'. Huge difference when applied to buildings and people!

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      1. Blaine Barber‏ @NewLeftRadio 1 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker I fully expect a few double entendres in this thread. Also, still laughing about Urban Legend.... oh dear!

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      1. Matt Paice‏ @Matt_Paice 1 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker You don't think "the plot was cliched" has passed into common usage? 'The plot was a cliche' sounds clumsy.

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      1. Anthony Garis‏ @AnthonyGaris 1 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker I liked a girl who had jet-black hair and I complimented her by calling it “ravenous"

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      1. Maurice Voogd‏ @senorwatanabe 1 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker That was fun ☺

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      1. preger‏ @PregerPreger 1 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker @krieghofer Never will call my neighbour a noisome (&^$%)!! when he plays loud music! ;-)

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      1. Steven Holt‏ @linkolanko 1 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker My pet hate is: sanguine to mean phlegmatic rather than optimistic.

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      1. Sophie Raseman‏ @raseman 1 Dec 2015
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        @sapinker many of my fellow feds are also fighting the lost cause for data as a plural noun, although they never push datum

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