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		<title>Declining writing standards?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone on LinkedIn Answers asked the question &#8220;Has writing gone the way of the Dodo?&#8221; and wrote that he didn&#8217;t mean that writing was extinct, just that standards of business writing appear to have declined. He provoked a lot of responses from writers, and his question certainly hit a nerve with me, so here&#8217;s what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A custard cream? That&#8217;s neet!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary (OED) was published this week, and there have been a spate of articles about some of the new words that are in the dictionary for the first time, including custard cream and neet. The OED is a repository of the words we use &#8211; it&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why &quot;correctness&quot; matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Native speakers of English &#8211; or any other language &#8211; seem to know how to use their own language, and what is correct in language use, even without formal study of the rules of grammar. People just seem to know &#8220;what sounds right&#8221;. Many very wise people have written about this at length and I [...]]]></description>
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