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Wordcount.org
Mr Poole kindly shared the website wordcount.org with me today. It proclaims itself to be “an interactive presentation of the 86,800 most frequently used English words.” The data set it uses draws on the British National Corpus. It’s just a bit … Continue reading
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Google Docs
Here is a link to a post from last year on setting up Google Docs. There have been one or two changes since then but I think it still works pretty much as described. Unless asked otherwise, please share any … Continue reading
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‘Separate’ is most commonly misspelt word – Telegraph
via telegraph.co.uk An interesting article in its own right, but I saw this shared on twitter by AngrySubEditor, who found 13 errors in the article. How many can you find?
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