Does having a New Zealand accent make you a bad speller?
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Should you use capital letters for pronouns like "he" and "him" when you're talking about God?
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Do oriented and orientated mean the same thing? What about preventive and preventative?
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Until, till, 'til, 'till, til . . . which are right, and which will get you in trouble with the grammar police?
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What's the difference between "burned" and "burnt" (and what on earth is the perfective aspect)?
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The debate over the pronoun "they" has intensified lately – here's why.
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What's the difference between "dependent" and "dependant" (and how can you remember it)?
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A bitter 17th-century poet is to blame for one of our most enduring grammar myths.
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Do you know what "transpire" means? But do you really?
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Are you a writer or editor? You should know about these free online resources.
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Is it specially or especially? We have the answers (even if we're no good at reading calendars).
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Programme or program? It depends what you're talking about and which side of the Tasman you're on.
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How on earth did we all end up thinking it was a mistake to split infinitives?
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Is it Britney Spears’ legacy or Britney Spears’s legacy? In other words, how do we take a singular noun that ends in s and make it possessive?
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Possessive apostrophes can be a minefield. Where does the s go? Should there even be an s at all? We have the answers.
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Is the adjective cliché or clichéd? We have the answer (and a rock-solid explanation).
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BC and AD or BCE and CE? We weigh up the benefits of the Common Era system.
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You won't believe how many words have the opposite meaning in British and American English.
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Is it "in regard to" or "in regards to"? Don't make this common mistake in your job application cover letter.
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What is an Oxford comma (aka serial comma), and why does everyone care about it so damn much?
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