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Hi everyone. Is there life before death?
I am from Wales and also now teach English, tell me right I wrote the following sentence: "In understanding how to read a paper, we need to start at the beginning with a few preliminaries."
With respect 8-), Tug.

Tug of AR 12:43AM February 23, 2009

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bob of AK 8:35AM February 19, 2009

So you want a demoncracy,lets all dumb down.Standards have slipped dramatically in America already.The health system is fragmented,and the best minds do not want to endure medmal insurance and the "business" now of providing health care.Who cares about the spellin of antthang?Social darwinists will be amazaed we as a society lasted this long in 100 years.

Dash Riproc of PA 11:37PM February 03, 2009

To sue of KS
FYI, alright is an acceptable way to spell all right.
From Merriam-Webster:
usage The one-word spelling alright appeared some 75 years after all right itself had reappeared from a 400-year-long absence. Since the early 20th century some critics have insisted alright is wrong, but it has its defenders and its users. It is less frequent than all right but remains in common use especially in journalistic and business publications. It is quite common in fictional dialogue, and is used occasionally in other writing <the first two years of medical school were alright — Gertrude Stein>.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alright

V of CA 3:03PM January 27, 2009

I am in agreement with challenging people to a higher standard of CORRECT spelling and language! The dumb-downing of Americans is ridiculous. Daily I witness a number of misspelled words... "mannor" instead of "manner” not a typo which I can forgive...the "o" key and the "e" keys are nowhere near one another! To the wind with all the back-sliders accepting mediocrity as a standard (i.e. alot for a lot; alright for all right, nuculear for nuclear) Give me a break already or should I say all ready?!
My Grandparents taught us, there is only one way to do something, "Do it right or not at all!" Do your best!

sue of KS 7:18AM January 24, 2009

There's no question that as economic pressures on our health care system impose reimbursement reductions for providers and service limitations for patients - patient advocates will be in demand. Our system is dysfunctional and fragmented, and it's the most expensive health care system in the world. Yet despite the enormous amount of money we spend on healthcare in the US, we measure poorly on health outcomes when compared against other developed nations. Clearly we're not meeting the needs of patients as well as we should.
We have to fix this. Sarah Lawrence College has the only master's degree in Health Advocacy in the US. We're looking for committed people who want to address these issues.

Laura Weil of NY 1:20PM January 12, 2009

GETALIFE or, more correctly, GET A LIFE

ROSCOE of NJ 5:48PM January 06, 2009

I'm with Eric Jay of CA. Though I may not always be grammatically correct in my writing or spelling, I rely on the experts to be. I've given up on advertisers and the words they use (You'll want to 'rock' these boots!), but I hope that a professional article regarding career would be perfectly composed.
I still have a problem with the mispronunciation of words becoming part of our vernacular. "Nucular" is acceptable for the correct "nuclear"? Thank you GWB. I'm certain he says "realator" too. Forget about "alright", soon enough it will be acceptable to write "ite".

Kim of CA 12:26PM January 06, 2009

Did anyone notice that the spoken word feature says "lot" and that all the examples given for use show "a lot" as separate words? I don't know if the page was spoofed or the proofreaders were on strike, but I would never let that usage ('alot") survive my blue pencil. I have been a writer and editor (and composer, designer, and hired cogitator) for a third of a century now, and I have never seen "alot" used by any seasoned, skilled, erudite writer. Not one. And I do not recognize this one suspicious dictionary entry as being authoritative, either. Read the whole page at that link! It never repeats that spelling that is at the top! Strange stuff... but if you want a really arcane quibble, I am sorry to report that my personal crusade to save the original, correct meaning of "comprise" has failed. Most dictionaries now accept what we all know still to be wrong, that is, defining "comprise" as "compose" in the passive, to wit, "America is comprised of 50 states." Ouch! That hurts! Here is the classic definition rationale: "The whole comprises the parts." Therefore, "America comprises 50 states." The saddest thing -- few people even give a damn anymore, and the "living language" argument is specious. Take the bastardization of "all right," for example. I will NOT accept "alright," ever. It is just, plain wrong. Okay, okay. I'm done.

erik jay of CA 1:12AM January 06, 2009