Do You Speech?
Speech is the Rosetta Stone of your own image. Master it and you have taken a gigantic step toward people starting to see the best you. And yet, the easiest way to fail is to lack the ability
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July 9th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Great article!
However you omitted two of the most incorrectly used words in the English language: “I” and “me” (especially in a prepositional phrase).
If I hear these phrases one more time, I may have a conniption: “Jill and me are going to the store” or “You can come with Jack and I.” Or the worst one of all, “I’ll add it to Mary and I’s schedule.”