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		<title>Space Wars</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a danger that the space wars may erupt all over again. Not a war in space, thank goodness but a war about the number of spaces to put after a full stop (or if you are from the USA, after a period).
The background story is that for many years people learning to type [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A custard cream? That&#8217;s neet!</title>
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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>Learning from Jane</title>
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		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always enjoyed citing Jane Austen&#8217;s use of &#8220;their&#8221; with a singular antecedent in rebuttal of the pedants who claim it must only be used with the plural (see the reference on Henry Churchyard&#8217;s Linguistics page, and many other citations on the Internet). As a technical writer using &#8220;their&#8221; in the singular is particularly [...]]]></description>
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