Business Owners: Get Your Holiday Greetings Right
Holiday greetings can build a relationship or hurt it. These tips to follow and gaffes to avoid will help you.
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More Tortured Idioms: The 800-Pound Gorilla in the Room
As Mark Twain said, “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.” In the hum of daily speech, people may misunderstand a phrase without realizing that they have misunderstood it. Then they prance merrily through life, saying and writing things like “in the
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Never Say This! Phrases to Avoid in Business Writing
Avoid annoying your readers by eliminating these problem phrases.
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Lying Low or Laying Low?
A friend recently told me that she was laying low until after New Year’s. Alarm bells went off in my head as I wondered, “Doesn’t she mean she is lying low?” Many of us are perplexed about the difference between lying low and laying low. The problem arises from a deeper confusion about the difference between lie and lay. In my book on
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A Weak Writing Pattern: “I wanted to…but I didn’t.”
To write clearly, we need to avoid hedging phrases like “I wanted to…” or “I’d like to…” Learn how to ditch the hedges and make your point.
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