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According to recent research, 74 trillion emails got sent in 2015. That’s 205 billion per day so 124 per person.…
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Last week Barrack Obama’s handwritten romantic letters to his former girlfriend Alexandra McNair were released. The letters show Obama was a…
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Reading corporate writing is painful. It’s troublesome for anyone to read certain words and phrases that we hope the writer…
Apostrophe mistakes are always unacceptable. That’s because they change the meaning of your words. It’s the difference between feeling you’re…
On Friday Ryanair announced it was cancelling 50 flights per day “to improve its system-wide punctuality”. This disrupts passengers already…