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15 December 2013
Use words correctly. ‘Toward’, ‘anyway’, and ‘regard’, do NOT have an ‘s’ on the end of them. Don’t put one there. The same is true with a ‘t’ at the end of ‘across’. A ‘moot point’ is one that doesn’t matter. It is not ‘mute’ (silent) nor ‘mood’ (an emotion). ‘Tack’ is gear for an horse, so if you change your ‘tack’, you’re trying something different. ‘Tact’ is a good thing to practice, but doesn’t apply directly to trying another solution. If you want someone to know something for sure, the phrase is: “If some other person thinks that something I don’t want to happen will, they have another THINK coming.” They do not have another THING coming. Words that begin with a vowel or an ‘h’, get ‘an’ before them. The rest get a single ‘a’. Ir-regardless and un-thaw are not only not words they imply the opposite. Remove the first syllable and you’re correct. ‘There’, ‘their’ and ‘they’re’ are not interchangeable. Neither are ‘your’ and ‘you’re’.
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