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Preserve the concinnity of English, caterwauls American university

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FAIL

> Inability to use the verb "lie" correctly.

Inability to use the past tence correctly

As in "I payed" or "I slayed" rather than "I paid" or "I slew".

Maybe I should read a better class of self-published[1] stuff. If that isn't an oxymoron.

[1] Occurs in books from established, reasonably well-respected publishers too!

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