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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	For You Fans of the King's English
	Date:	7/12/2010 11:49:20 AM

How about use of the term "irregardless", of which there is technically such a word but it is redundant and probably a mixture of regardless and irrespective. Another one that gets me going is to turn nouns into verbs. Terms like dialouging or wordsmithing, etc.

My first mentor in the environmental business was a stickler for the King's english because his mom was a college English professor. I learned more about writing precisely from him than any teacher I ever had because after he edited a document with red pen (always!) he would sit down and go through every single sentence he changed and explain why in gory detail. My goal in life was to get a document approved by him with no changes just to avoid the pain of those sessions........never fulfilled......but I got close a few times.