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confused words:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/commonly-confused-words
    And more that I can’t recall off-hand, but assuredly found
their way into my work.
    I had many friends online who came up with suggestions as to
what they wanted to see covered in this book. Special call out to Sally
Berneathy, Sirio Balmelli, John Amussen, JoJo Zawawi, David Newberger and
Stephen Eckelberry for their help reviewing this book. To the rest, thank you,
I know who you are.

About the author
    Alex Eckelberry has written and spoken extensively on a
broad range of subjects, including technology, the environment and investing.
He has nearly 30 years of experience in technology and related areas, including
several years in private equity and venture capital. He has been extensively
quoted and interviewed in national press, radio and television, including
BusinessWeek, the New York Times, and USA Today, the Today Show, NPR, Fox News
and CBC Canada. His community involvement includes founding the Tampa Bay
Conservation League; the Julie Group, which seeks fairness in the intersection
of technology and law; and co-founding Phishing Incidence and Response
Termination (PIRT). Alex is currently an independent advisor and board member
to a broad range of companies, and lives with his wife and four children in the
Tampa Bay, Florida area.

Can I ask a favor?
    If you enjoyed this book, found it useful or otherwise then
I’d really appreciate it if you would post a short review on Amazon. I do read
all the reviews personally so that I can continue to write what people want.
    Oh, and if you find something you’d like to see changed in
this book, or have a complaint, question or whatever, I’d love to hear from
you. Just contact me through my website – www.becomeabetterwriter.org.
    Thanks for your support!
     
     
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    [1] Thanks to Ann Gynn at the Content Marketing Institute for this great tip.
    [2] Thanks to the Writing Center at the
University of Wisconsin – Madison for this brilliant example.
    [3] “Grammar Myths #1:…” OxfordWords Blog. Web. 28 Nov.
2014. blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/11/grammar -myths-prepositions
    [4] History of English grammars. (n.d.). Retrieved
April 8, 2015, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_English_grammars
    [5] Williams, Adrian J. (2014-03-15). Linguistics:
Language Mastery. The Ultimate Information Book (Linguistics, Language,
Semantics, Syntax, Pragmatics, Etymology, Phonetics) (Kindle Locations
642-647). Jr Kindle Publishing. Kindle Edition.
    [6] Ibid.
    [7] Indo-European  expansion 4000–1000 BC, according to the Kurgan hypothesis, Author by Dbachmann, licensed under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. From Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages
    [8] Harris, William. "The Indo-European  Background." The Indo-European Background .
Web. 6 Dec. 2014.
http://community.middlebury.edu/~harris/LatinBackground/IndoEuroBackground.html
    [9]  Gamqreliz ̇ e, T ’ amaz,
V. V. Ivanov, and Werner Winter. Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans: A
Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-language and a Proto-culture. Berlin: M. De Gruyter, 1995. Print. Also available on Google Books.
    [10] Drummond, Henry. The Ascent of Man. Lanham: Start LLC, 2013. Print. Also available on Google Books.
    [11] Hitchings, Henry (2009-09-29). The Secret Life of
Words: How English  Became English (p. 21). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Kindle Edition.
    [12] Harbeck, J. (n.d.). Are You Using Myself Correctly?
The Fantastic Flexibility of the Reflexive Pronoun .
http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/01/17/myself _when_is_it_okay_to_use_the_reflexive_pronoun_in_a_sentence.html
    [13] Discussed nicely at "I'm
Good" Outrage Is Nonsense. www.motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/the-im-good-outrage-is-nonsense/;
and Good Versus Well. www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar /good-versus-well.
    [14] Olson, L. (2008). Visual rhetoric: A
reader in