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	Misused Expressions. Strunk, William, Jr. 1918. Elements of Style
		Expressions of this type should be corrected by rearranging the sentence.
		Often vaguely used in such expressions as "a lover of nature;" "poems about nature." Unless more specific statements follow, the reader cannot tell whether the poems have to do with natural scenery, rural life, the sunset, the untracked wilderness, or the habits of squirrels.
		Similar to this, but with even less justification, is the use of the plural pronoun with the antecedent anybody, any one, somebody, some one, the intention being either to avoid the awkward "he or she," or to avoid committing oneself to either.
	www.bartleby.com /141/strunk3.html (2130 words)

	The Elements of Style Revised
		The expression within the parentheses is punctuated as if it stood by itself, except that the final stop is omitted unless it is a question mark or an exclamation point.
		Expressions using case should be carefully scrutinized, with the exceptions of the fixed phrases in any case, (just) in case, in case of, and in that case.
		The writer may either reword the expression, often by using the passive voice (which itself may be subject to condemnation), or else choose one of the three alternatives and accept the accompanying criticisms.
	home.ccil.org /~cowan/style-revised.html (8834 words)

	A Glossary of Frequently Misused or Misunderstood Physics Terms and Concepts.
		The misuse of this word probably dates back to the 18th century when it was still thought that bodies undergoing thermal processes exchanged a substance, called caloric or phlogiston, a substance later called heat.
		Misuse alert: Folks who don't pay attention to details of science, are heard to say "Heisenberg showed that you can't be certain about anything." We also hear some folk justifying belief in esp or psychic phenomena by appeal to the Heisenberg principle.
		Misuse alert: One hears some folks with superficial minds say "Einstein showed that everything is relative." In fact, special relativity shows that only certain measurable things are relative, but in a precisely and mathematically specific way, and other things are, not relative, for all observers agree on them.
	spider.ipac.caltech.edu /staff/jarrett/LiU/resource/misused_glossary.html (8644 words)

	Strunk, William, Jr. 1918. The Elements of Style
		If a parenthetic expression is preceded by a conjunction, place the first comma before the conjunction, not after it.
		A sentence containing an expression in parenthesis is punctuated, outside of the marks of parenthesis, exactly as if the expression in parenthesis were absent.
		The expression within is punctuated as if it stood by itself, except that the final stop is omitted unless it is a question mark or an exclamation point.
	www.ece.utexas.edu /~adnan/writing/strunk_white.html (8691 words)

	Misused Expressions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The incorrect use (misuse) of an expression is in some cases obvious to all fluent speakers of a language, but in other cases a matter of opinion.
		With repeated misuse, the error can sometimes become the norm, or at least an acceptable alternative.
		This is not what is meant in our example, where 'begs the question' is simply being used, incorrectly, to mean 'raises the question'.
	www.encyclopedia-1.com /m/mi/misused_expressions.html (173 words)

	Buddy Expressions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		He was openly referenced as being bland in the Warner Brothers animated television series Animaniacs (which stars three cartoon charactersdating back to the 1930s) in an episode that cast him as a villain rigging an awards show against his imagined enemies that stolehis fame.
		Anthropology 5: ption, exchange, socialization, gender, and other expressions of culture, with strong emphasis on the importanc 22: to some confusing or disturbing and#8211; cultural expressions.
		The oldest known positive expressions of atheism, however, date to as late as ca.
	www.swingdancemusic.com /send/23823-buddy%20expressions.html (556 words)

	Expressions, Equations and Substitution
		Simplifying an expression means to do such things as complete any simple additions of like quantities, cancel any common factors in the numerator and denominator of fractions, and rationalize the denominators of any fractions.
		This is limited to a series of equations where we are modifying the expression on the right but not modifying the expression on the left, and we stack the equations in a single column.
		Unlike an expression, which can have a numerical value, an equation can have a logical value that is either true or false.
	www.austincc.edu /calcpro/Expressions.htm (2506 words)

	Oliver Strunk: The Elements of Style - Chapter IV
		ANY of the words and expressions listed here are not so much bad English as bad style, the commonplaces of careless writing.
		Like has long been widely misused by the illiterate; lately it has been taken up by the knowing and the well- informed, who find it catchy, or liberating, and who use it as though they were slumming.
		Nature should be avoided in such vague expressions as "a lover of nature," "poems about nature." Unless more specific statements follow, the reader cannot tell whether the poems have to do with natural scenery, rural life, the sunset, the untracked wilderness, or the habits of squirrels.
	orwell.ru /library/others/style/e/estyle_4.htm (5244 words)

	Regex Tutorial - The Dot Matches (Almost) Any Character (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In regular expressions, the dot or period is one of the most commonly used metacharacters.
		If you are new to regular expressions, some of these cases may not be so obvious at first.
		Use regular expressions to search through large numbers of text and binary files, such as source code, correspondence, server or system logs, reference texts, archives, etc. Quickly find the files you are looking for, or extract the information you need.
	www.regular-expressions.info /dot.html (953 words)

	BU: FAQ: Commonly Misused Words and Expressions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Often, a writer chooses words and expressions that really don't convey the message the writer has intended.
		Even though many of these words and expressions are not considered poor English, they are considered poor style, the commonplaces of careless writing.
		Not to be used of other persons, or at the end of a list introduced by such as, for example, or any similar expression.
	ustudies.semo.edu /writing/owl/bu/FAQ/words.asp (450 words)

	A Glossary of Frequently Misused or Misunderstood Physics Terms and Concepts.
		The misuse of this word probably dates back to the 18th century when it was still thought that bodies undergoing thermal processes exchanged a substance, called caloric or phlogiston, a substance later called heat.
		Misuse alert: Folks who don't pay attention to details of science, are heard to say "Heisenberg showed that you can't be certain about anything." We also hear some folk justifying belief in esp or psychic phenomena by appeal to the Heisenberg principle.
		Misuse alert: One hears some folks with superficial minds say "Einstein showed that everything is relative." In fact, special relativity shows that only certain measurable things are relative, but in a precisely and mathematically specific way, and other things are, not relative, for all observers agree on them.
	www.lhup.edu /~dsimanek/glossary.htm (9793 words)

	Expressions, Equations and Substitution
		Simplifying an expression means to do such things as complete any simple additions of like quantities, cancel any common factors in the numerator and denominator of fractions, and rationalize the denominators of any fractions.
		This is limited to a series of equations where we are modifying the expression on the right but not modifying the expression on the left, and we stack the equations in a single column.
		Unlike an expression, which can have a numerical value, an equation can have a logical value that is either true or false.
	www.austin.cc.tx.us /calcpro/Expressions.htm (2482 words)

	Logical Expressions, Inc. - Print and Online Publishing Products and Services - Books, Web Sites, Newsletters and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		End If When you run this code, you get a message box that says "the expression is false." If that is not the result you are expecting, then imagine trying to find this bug in code that is buried deep within your program.
		The job of And is to compare the corresponding bits of each expression and produce a new bit pattern that contains a 1 everywhere both expressions had a 1 and a 0 where either expression had a 0.
		It too is a bitwise operator, but using Or on two non-zero expressions always results in a non-zero value and using it on two zero expressions always results in zero, so your conditional statements behave as expected.
	www.logicalexpressions.com /vbtip01.htm (1051 words)

	Expressions
		List of German expressions in English Below is a list of borrowing in English has assumed a substantially different mean...
		List of Spanish expressions in common English Here are some phrases used in the Spanish language.
		Misused Expressions The incorrect use (misuse) of an expression is in some cases obvious to all fluent speakers of a l...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/expressions.html (93 words)

	Style Manual : University of Minnesota
		These expressions are overused and are too informal in most contexts.
		The principle of parallel construction requires that expressions that are similar in content and function be expressed similarly.
		Correlative expressions should be followed by parallel phrases or clauses.
	www1.umn.edu /urelate/style/language-usage.html (2397 words)

	Oliver Strunk: The Elements of Style
		To be batting only.500 this late in the season, to fail half the time to connect with this fat pitch, saddens me, for it seems a betrayal of the man who showed me how to swing at it and made the swinging seem worthwhile.
		A sentence containing an expression in parentheses is punctuated outside the last mark of parenthesis exactly as if the parenthetical expression were absent.
		The expression within the marks is punctuated as if it stood by itself, except that the final stop is omitted unless it is a question mark or an exclamation point.
	site25.net /eslweb/strunk (15534 words)

	Regular Expressions in T-SQL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Given that a recent blog of mine lamented the dangers of using xprocs, I thought it would be a good time to show some of the wonderful stuff you can do thanks to SQL Server extensibility features such as xprocs and COM objects.
		As I documented in my book The Guru’s Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML, two steps are required to make a UDF a system function: It must be created in the master database with an owner of system_function_schema while allow updates is enabled, and its name must begin with fn_.
		I’m creating our Regular Expression function as a system function because it’s naturally something that would be useful system-wide.
	www.yeyan.cn /Database/RegularExpressionsTSQL.aspx (744 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Communicatio Idiomatum (Communication of Idioms)
		Consequently, such expressions as "man became God" are to be avoided.
		But such expressions are liable to be misunderstood and great care must be exercised in their use.
		in the use of ambiguous terms: the Arians, the Nestorians, and the Adoptionists misused the term "servant", inferring from the expression, "Christ is the servant of God", conclusions agreeing with their respective heresies.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04169a.htm (908 words)

	Book Reviews
		What words can you no longer say?' The above-mentioned terms are taken from that lexicon, comprising expressions that were misused by the torturers and appropriated as terms connected with physical torture.
		Thus, for the prison camp survivors, the capucha designates a section of the camp where prisoners were made to wear hoods covering their heads, faces and necks.
		She therefore informs us that expressions misused by the torturers have already become part of the current slang in Argentine Spanish.
	www.ejil.org /journal/Vol10/No1/br6.html (1158 words)

	LISP History
		These expressions are regarded as declarative sentences in a logical system which is understood to be similar to a Post cannonical system with the production rules substitution and modus ponens.
		It was the example of differentiating expressions which make it necessary to apply the differential operator to every summand, which induced the idea of the maplist function.
		Therefore, the programmers misused conditional expressions because of the sequential execution of the predicates.
	www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de /html/lisp/histlit1.html (9211 words)

	Word Usage In Scientific Writing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This listing includes some of the troublesome words, terms, and expressions most frequently found in Experiment Station journal paper and bulletin manuscripts.
		Some terms and expressions are worn-out cliches and have outlived their usefulness; other expressions and terms, though not incorrect, are not precise.
		Use precise words and expressions of unmistakable meaning; avoid the clouded, ambiguous, vague, and needlessly complex.
	www.ag.iastate.edu /aginfo/checklist.html (1757 words)

	TermPaperEdge: Free Sample Term Papers, Term Paper Writing Help Course, Writing Lab
		My tutor did a superb job in noting how I could shorten my essay to the word limit and still be able to convey my main points.
		Often vaguely used in such expressions as "a lover of nature;" "poems about nature.
		Restrict it to the sense of express full or clearly, as, "He refused to state his objections.
	www.termpaperedge.com /guidelines/elements/rule5-1.shtml (2372 words)

	The Japan Foundation > Main Activities > Japanese-Language Education Overseas > Publications > ...
		This paper is a study of the Japanese desiderative expressions -tai desu ka (do you want to -?) and te hoshii desu ka (do you want me to -?), which are often pragmatically misused by foreign learners of the Japanese language in contact situations.
		The data of the learners revealed first language transfer concerning the desiderative expressions, irrespective of their declared knowledge that the desiderative expressions should be avoided when speaking to strangers and superiors in Japanese.
		The ungrammaticality of an expression is explained in terms of the mismatch between the schema and the concerned situation described.
	www.jpf.go.jp /e/japan/publish/globe/08/report.html (2798 words)

	The Misused Possessive Apostrophe - Icons of England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Such expressions as "...with it's long and unparalled brewing tradition in Burton..." (found on this site) demonstrate the inability of people to comprehend the difference between the word "its" and the word "it's".
		But the worst example of the errant apostrophe is where street vendors of fruit and vegetables use such extraordinary constructions as "potato's", "apple's" and "banana's" - instead of the correct plural formation.
		The Misused Possessive Apostrophe is definitely NOT an icon of the English.
	www.icons.org.uk /nom/nominations/apostrophe/comments (478 words)

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		Next week, we will talk about talks and apply these issues to your talks, so that you will know how to give a good talk before giving a talk.
		(But first, I stopped at the bar.) \end{itemize} \section{Words and expressions commonly misused} Here is a list of commonly misused words and expression, examples of their misusage, and their corrected usage.
		Tom told of seeing a sign in front of a church: ``One of southern Saskatchewan's fastest growing churches.'' (Make a list of churches in southern Saskatchewan, order it by rate of growth, and sure enough, it's somewhere in the list.) \item[Respectively.] Strunk and White recommend rewriting to omit it.
	www.cs.dartmouth.edu /~thc/CS188/scribe/1024.txt (1842 words)

	==> All about Misused commonly
		The transition from spoken to written language can often be a bumpy one misused commonly.
		words (some are obvious, others are not): misused commonly.
		The following list of commonly misused words was initially prepared by the
	cri.ch /about/misused_commonly.html (152 words)

	Mark English Blog: Prompt One
		While I like this book for it's use in the general reference of writing, I did not find much use to chapter four Words and Expressions Commonly Misused.
		However, many many of the words and expressions stated as misused are normal in everyday speach.
		So when you are writing about everyday stuff, I think it benifits you to use "common man" english.
	mpyenta.blogspot.com /2004/10/prompt-one.html (305 words)

	Editors' Resources \| Writing, Editing, Publishing, and ESL Support Services
		Words with similar spellings that are often confused, words that are often misused or misspelled
		Wordy structures, redundant words, and misused words such as effect, less vs. fewer, and whom
		Word usage; colons and semicolons; commas; apostrophes and hyphens; abbreviations and number expressions; and capitalization, quotation marks, italics, and periods
	www.wordsweave.com /links/editors_resources.html (829 words)

	WritingLabEdge: Term Paper Writing Help Course, Writing Lab
		A common type of redundant expression; see Rule
		Often vaguely used in such expressions as "a lover of nature;" "poems about nature.
		Restrict it to the sense of express full or clearly, as, "He refused to state his objections.
	www.writinglabedge.com /guidelines/elements/rule5-1.shtml (2317 words)

	Ken Henderson's WebLog : Regular Expressions in T-SQL
		See it for additional Regular Expression search techniques as well as for more info on SQL Server's SQLOLE facility, the component that makes all of this possible.
		I use a regular expression UDF as an example in a newsletter.
		I'm pretty sure the regular expression version is going to be faster than creating a com object.
	blogs.msdn.com /khen1234/archive/2005/05/11/416392.aspx (1192 words)

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