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I’ve been using this fantastic site<\/a> for a while now and keep coming back to it. It’s a handy one-page guide to common errors in English that is meant to help “you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak”, but personally I just find it fascinating and fun.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve been using this fantastic site for a while now and keep coming back to it. It’s a handy one-page guide to common errors in English that is meant to help “you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak”, but personally I just […]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-59","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-web","7":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8649,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2022\/02\/08\/8649\/","url_meta":{"origin":59,"position":0},"title":"\ud83d\udcda How could a printing\u2026","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"8 February 2022","format":"status","excerpt":"\ud83d\udcda How could a printing error like this have occurred?","rel":"","context":"In "Snippets"","block_context":{"text":"Snippets","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/category\/snippets\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ec9f35a4684a433fa7f128c6ecb08fc4.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ec9f35a4684a433fa7f128c6ecb08fc4.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ec9f35a4684a433fa7f128c6ecb08fc4.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ec9f35a4684a433fa7f128c6ecb08fc4.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ec9f35a4684a433fa7f128c6ecb08fc4.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ec9f35a4684a433fa7f128c6ecb08fc4.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":44,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2004\/07\/20\/o2-phone-tip\/","url_meta":{"origin":59,"position":1},"title":"O2 phone tip","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"20 July 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"If, like me, you have trouble in answering your mobile in good time and you're on the O2 network, you may find this tip useful. 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