TV/online journalist phrases - "Speak to" as in "Can you speak to the conditions which led to this event?" I'm not sure whether it's 'good grammar' or not, I just don't like it!
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
Not single words as much as buzz phrases. I had a manager once who used them all the time. At a team meeting one of my colleagues came out with something along the lines of "We just need to make sure that nobody trips over the box, and squashes the low hanging fruit whilst thinking laterally. They could end up flat on their back looking at the blue sky". Everybody in the room was laughing except the manager.
Effect and affect Complement and compliment Continual and continuous Discrete and discreet Disinterested and uninterested and a pair I own up to getting muddled, Feint and faint.
One idiomatic usage I have seen frequently used of late is ‘get rid’ used intransitively. To me that sounds wrong. I would always use the phrasal verb ‘get rid of’ followed by an object.
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And I’ll reiterate, full stop, not ‘period’!
"Streatham terror attack: Prison recall may have stopped Sudesh Amman"
(BBC News website.)No it didn't.
May - might - could - would are not interchangeable😡
Complement and compliment
Continual and continuous
Discrete and discreet
Disinterested and uninterested
and a pair I own up to getting muddled,
Feint and faint.
One idiomatic usage I have seen frequently used of late is ‘get rid’ used intransitively. To me that sounds wrong. I would always use the phrasal verb ‘get rid of’ followed by an object.
"Human resources" for Personnel.