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US vs. UK | This user uses "logical quotation marks". Forcing internal punctuation leads to factual errors. It's not a nationalistic style issue! |
you one | This user knows that one should not use "you" in encyclopædic articles. |
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This user prefers that the subjunctive mood be used. Were this user you, he would use it.
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| if & whether | This user knows how to use "if" and "whether" correctly. |
| whom | This user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever he sees. |
| -ize | This user spells the suffix -ize with a z, as is etymologically appropriate! |
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A and B | This user prefers to use the serial comma only when its omission can be confusing. |
| ubiquitous ≠ widespread | This user asserts that the more common word is often not the most precise. |
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mankind | This user supports the use of gender-neutral language when it reasonably exists as an alternative to a common gendered word. |
| . The | This user does not put two spaces after a full stop. |
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try to | This user tries to discourage usage of "try and". |
| "There's" with a plural subject | This user knows that "there's" with a plural subject is a pervasive grammatical error. There's There are too many people making this mistake. Don't be one of them. |
Pickyness Pickiness | This user changes the adjective ending "y" to "i" to form nouns with "-ness". |
| Majority ≠ right
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This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.
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| amn't | This user considers amn't a perfectly logical alternative to aren’t in the first person singular. |
| couldn't've | This user believes that couldn't've would make a perfectly fine word. |
| ’s | Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice. |
| snuk | This user says snuck. |
| zoöglœæ | This user is an evil præscriptivist who's goïng to make Latin your plurals. |
| hopeably | This user encourages the hopeable popularization of the word hopeably, or even hopeäbly, and hopefully hopes that you hopeably do so too. |
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