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‘Good’ is the most common adjective in the English language. ‘Bad’, meanwhile, is number 23...
According to the old saying, a picture is worth a thousand words. Despite this, pictures...
We’ve been campaigning to have homophones banned. After all, spelling is tricky enough as it...
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All the hot new research gets debuted at conferences. In fact, on the academic scene,...
The Romans gave us many things: roads, sanitation, towns, the calendar… and numerals! Okay, not...
‘Refute’ and ‘rebut’ are both commonly used to mean ‘deny’ or ‘reject’. However, these terms...
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Many people blaspheme while working on references. And who would blame them? Referencing is tricky...
The words ‘rack’ and ‘wrack’ cause a lot of confusion. This is understandable: after all,...
When writing an academic paper, you may need to quote something you’ve read somewhere. But...
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What do you call a sentence that…? If you think something is missing there, you’re...
Many things go towards making a well-formatted document. Paragraph spacing, for instance, adds a gap...
Here at Proofreading Towers, we see certain common errors every day. Aptly enough, one of...