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		<title>10:30 o&#8217;clock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My sister-in-law will soon graduate from high school, and we recently got her graduation announcement in the mail. It was pretty standard stuff&#8212;a script font in metallic ink on nice paper&#8212;but one small detail caught my eye. It says the commencement exercises will take place at &#8220;ten-thirty o&#8217;clock.&#8221; As far as I can remember, I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arrantpedantry.com/2010/05/12/1030-oclock/</link>
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		<title>Would you like to take a survey?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working on a research project for a class this semester, and I need volunteers to take a short survey. It involves reading three short passages and answering a few questions. It should only take about 10 minutes. The results will not be published and no identifiable personal information will be collected. If anyone is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arrantpedantry.com/2010/04/09/would-you-like-to-take-a-survey/</link>
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		<title>Scriptivists Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before I begin: I know&#8212;it&#8217;s been a terribly, horribly, unforgivably long time since my last post. Part of it is that I&#8217;m often busy with grad school and work and family, and part of it is that I&#8217;ve been thinking an awful lot lately about prescriptivism and descriptivism and linguists and editors and don&#8217;t really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arrantpedantry.com/2010/03/24/scriptivists-revisited/</link>
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		<title>Not Surprising, This Sounds Awkward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day at work I came across a strange construction: an author had used &#8220;not surprising&#8221; as a sentence adverb, as in &#8220;Not surprising, the data show that. . . .&#8221; I assumed it was simply an error, so I changed it to &#8220;not surprisingly&#8221; and went on. But then I saw the same [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arrantpedantry.com/2009/10/12/not-surprising-this-sounds-awkward/</link>
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		<title>Linguists and Straw Men</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry I haven&#8217;t posted in so long (I know I say that a lot)&#8212;I&#8217;ve been busy with school and things. Anyway, a couple months back I got a comment on an old post of mine, and I wanted to address it. I know it&#8217;s a bit lame to respond to two-month-old comments, but it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arrantpedantry.com/2009/06/19/linguists-and-straw-men/</link>
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		<title>Reflections on National Grammar Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I&#8217;m a week late to the party, but I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about National Grammar Day and want to blog about it anyway. Please forgive me for my untimeliness. First off, I should say for those who don&#8217;t know me that I work as a copy editor. I clearly understand the value [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arrantpedantry.com/2009/03/10/reflections-on-national-grammar-day/</link>
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		<title>Do You Agree That We Ask for Your Consent?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished filing my federal taxes with H&#038;R Block&#8217;s free e-filing (which I highly recommend, by the way), and at the end I encountered some rather confusing language. After submitting my return, I came to a page asking if I consented to let H&#038;R Block use my information for marketing purposes. (I always wonder [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arrantpedantry.com/2009/01/27/do-you-agree-that-we-ask-for-your-consent/</link>
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		<title>Less and Fewer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know this topic has been addressed in detail elsewhere (see goofy&#8217;s post here for example), but a friend recently asked me about it, so I thought I&#8217;d take a crack at it. It&#8217;s fairly straightforward: there are the complex, implicit rules that people have been following for over a thousand years, and then there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arrantpedantry.com/2008/12/23/less-and-fewer/</link>
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		<title>Impacted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I received an e-mail from my bank informing me that they had experienced some system outages. What struck me was that the e-mail kept referring to &#8220;impacted systems,&#8221; and it conjured up some strange mental images. A lot of people hate the verb impact because they say that it should only be a noun [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arrantpedantry.com/2008/09/06/impacted/</link>
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		<title>New and Improved Shirts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick update to say that I&#8217;ve redone the design for my Better Living Through Syntax shirts. Now it actually looks like a proper X-bar structure instead of a hastily drawn tree-thingy. Check it out! Keep in mind that the shirt colors there are just examples&#8212;you can choose your own. And, as always, if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arrantpedantry.com/2008/08/26/new-and-improved-shirts/</link>
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