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Sorry looks like an autocorrect artifact that I now cannot edit. Please strike the word in your mind as you read the sentence. :)


Too late, the main corpus of a contract is now officially known as the contract bell.


I don't know why I found this so funny, but it gave me a real laugh this evening.


The Language Instinct, in one section, gives some examples of ways in which an English sentence can be ungrammatical that people nevertheless rarely think of when they think about grammatical mistakes.

One of my favorites was "This sentence has cabbage six words". It's accurate! It's... almost well-formed! You have to fix "This sentence has six words" somehow, right?


This sentence has cabbage and seven words.


> This is something up with which we will not put!

to quote the great Churchill, when someone suggested that one should not end a sentence with a preposition.





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