Conflicting Proverbs

Actions speak louder than words.
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“Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.” –Wendell Johnson

One attends a meeting or seminar or a conference.
One doesn’t attend to a meeting or seminar …
… but a doctor attends to (treats) a patient.

One participates in a seminar or a conference.
One doesn’t participate to a seminar …
… but one goes to a seminar.

Action results in an outcome.
Action doesn’t result to an outcome.
… but action does lead to an outcome.

Let’s not mix up our prepositions.
… and I don’t have to make a proposition (proposal) out of that.

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“Engless” is my own word for wrong English
For Those who Reed and Right
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On the streets of Birmingham, the queen’s English is now the queens English. Read the rest of this entry »

Last November, the folks at Oxford University came out with a list of “top 10 irritating expressions” in the English language, by which I suppose they meant the English language as it’s employed in their corner of the English-speaking world, and not necessarily in what used to be the backwaters of the Bard’s dominion, in places like India and the Philippines. Read the rest of this entry »