Let's Talk Repetition
Language brings us together.
And as we all love language, it stands to reason that many of us move in similar circles. As a result, we often see the same things and sometimes have similar ideas.
Below, are some common examples of things so ubiquitous they no longer need to be discussed. None of these are prohibited topics or formats per se, however they are unlikely to make it through the approval process.
The examples provided are not an exhaustive list, and topics may be removed or added at Administrator’s discretion.
Examples
- • Literally
- • Sale for Sell
- • To/Too/Two
- • I Seen
- • Who vs Whom
- • Returning Back
- • John and I, vs John and Me
- • They/Them. See: Rule 1
- • Has the word <Example> been banned?
- • Lately I have seen <Thing>. – Don’t tell when you can show.
- • Punctuation Inside vs Outside Quotation Marks
- • The British say “Sat” but “We” say “Sitting”
- • Why do some people pronounce <thing>?
- • Department of Redundancy Department.
- • Beginning Sentences with Conjunctions
- • He/Him/His going/doing/etc.
- • The Serial (Oxford) Comma
- • Smith’s/Smiths’/Smiths’s
- • Plurals With Apostrophes
- • Bored With vs Bored Of
- • If I Was vs If I Were
- • Can Not vs Cannot
- • Have Went
- • Get/Got/Gotten
- • Off/Off Of
- • Verbing Nouns
- • (The Team) Is/Are
- • Different To/From/Than
- • Terminal Prepositions
- • Comma Splices
- • Split Infinitives
- • Literally
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