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The trailers for the upcoming film about the English literary legend of Beowulf not only make it smack too much of 300 for my taste, but they can’t even spell cannot right.  This is not too surprising.  I’m actually shocked when I find a student who actually uses cannot correctly rather than ignorantly writing can not. [...]

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The words the, of, and, to, a rank first through fifth, not surprisingly, in words used by English speakers and writers. I found this handy tool if you’d like to find where your favorite words rank.  However, those f and other words don’t rank as highly as you might expect.

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