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Which is correct, “you and I” or “you and me”?
When the phrase is used as an object, why so many native speakers are saying "you and I" instead of "you and me"? I'm not a native speaker but I thought "you and me" is correct. Not sure if this falls ...
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Is it ever worth the time and effort to correct someone else's grating grammatical mistakes?
Whenever I hear statements like "It was a great deal for he and I" and "Call Karen and I in the morning," I die a little. Such solecisms, as Twain said in another context (Cooper's prose style), ...
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“high rate of speed” or “high speed” to mean going fast
Why do reporters (and sometimes police officers) say that somebody was going at a high rate of speed when they actually mean high speed?
In physics, speed is already the rate of distance over time, ...
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Does 'symbolic' mean the same as 'symbolical', and should one be preferred?
Wikipedia's article on vespers contains this passage (my emphasis):
The name, however, by which it was most widely known during that period was Lucernalis or Lucernaria hora (l. c., 126). This ...
