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  2. Common English usage misconceptions - Wikipedia

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    [2] Perceived violations of correct English usage elicit visceral reactions in many people. For example, respondents to a 1986 BBC poll were asked to submit "the three points of grammatical usage they most disliked". Participants stated that their noted points "'made their blood boil', 'gave a pain to their ear', 'made them shudder', and ...

  3. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Everyday (one word) is an adjective meaning "ordinary". [48] exacerbate and exasperate. Exacerbate means "to make worse". Exasperate means "to annoy". Standard: Treatment by untrained personnel can exacerbate injuries. Standard: Do not let Jack talk to the state trooper; he is tactless and will just exasperate her. expedient and expeditious.

  4. Wikipedia:List of really, really, really stupid article ideas ...

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    Your band, which has only sold 47 copies of its one album. Even if you think it will sell 48. Or maybe 49! Or, if you get really lucky, you can pay off the record store owner so that he may buy one and your sales will have gone up to fifty!!! Keep dreamin', brotha. Your imaginary friend or your imaginary friends that don't even exist. [citation ...

  5. Scientists Asked People To Do 1 Thing Differently While ... - AOL

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    “It [creates] an amazing cascade of physiology that we can find almost any day and is very good for you,” Scientists Asked People To Do 1 Thing Differently While Taking A Walk. The Results ...

  6. Garden-path sentence - Wikipedia

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    A research paper published by Meseguer, Carreiras and Clifton (2002) stated that intensive eye movements are observed when people are recovering from a mild garden-path sentence. They proposed that people use two strategies, both of which are consistent with the selective reanalysis process described by Frazier and Rayner in 1982.

  7. Doublespeak Award - Wikipedia

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    The five member committee unanimously voted Trump as the champion of the dubious Doublespeak honor, with one member quoted as saying, "I don't think we've ever had a better example of the Doublespeak Award." 2017 – Kellyanne Conway, for coining the term "alternative facts" to defend President Trump's falsehoods about inauguration crowd sizes ...

  8. World's funniest joke - Wikipedia

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    The joke that was submitted to LaughLab the most times was: [6] What's brown and sticky? A stick. During a Science Vs podcast episode [7] [8], Richard Wiseman said this about whether it's actually the world's funniest joke: It was the joke that most people didn't hate. It's so you can look at any one group.

  9. Apes talk in a ‘language’ that humans can understand, study ...

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    As part of the study, 5,656 participants were asked to watch a series of 20 videos displaying gestures from chimpanzees and bonobos, our closest living ancestors. Only common gestures with ...