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0.74 Donald A. Sears, Engineers Spell Acoustically, College Composition and Communication, 1969.
0.60 , Current English Forum, College English, 1940.
0.56 George P. Elliott, Ten-Line English Grammar, College English, 1952.
0.56 Charles N. Somers, Pronunciation, College English, 1961.
0.52 , Current English Forum, College English, 1941.
0.52 Douglas Root Dickson, The Eye the Ear and the Misheard Sound, College English, 1952.
0.51 James B. McMillan, Five College Dictionaries, College English, 1949.
0.48 Louise Hening Johnson Jeffrey Fleece, Spelling and Pronunciation, College English, 1952.
0.46 Edith B. Douds, Classification, College English, 1956.
0.45 , Current English Forum, College English, 1958.
0.45 , Current English Forum, College English, 1942.
0.44 The NCTE Committee on Current English Usage Margaret M. Bryant, Current English Forum, College English, 1956.
0.43 David S. Berkeley, An Acceptable Comma Splice, College English, 1953.
0.41 , Current English Forum, College English, 1942.
0.41 The NCTE Committee on Current English Usage Margaret M. Bryant, Current English Forum, College English, 1956.
0.41 J. B. McMillan, Mispronunciation?, College English, 1949.
0.41 Margaret M. Bryant, Had Ought, College English, 1952.
0.41 , Current English Forum, College English, 1940.
0.40 , Double Is Nothing, College English, 1945.
0.40 Porter G. Perrin Albert H. Marckwardt James B. McMillan Julius C. Bernstein, Current English Forum, College English, 1944.
0.40 Russell Thomas, Showed as past Participle, College English, 1949.
0.39 , Current English Forum, College English, 1958.
0.39 Kemp Malone, Whom, College English, 1948.
0.39 L. E. Davis, Mispronunciation and Misspellings, College English, 1952.
0.39 Adeline Courtney Bartlett, Neither with Plural Verb, College English, 1951.
0.38 W. S. Avis, Prospective English Teachers Judge Good Usage, College English, 1953.
0.38 Donald W. Emery, Variant Spellings, College Composition and Communication, 1960.
0.38 The NCTE Committee on Current English Usage Margaret M. Bryant, Current English Forum, College English, 1956.
0.38 The NCTE Committee on Current English Usage, Current English Forum, College English, 1954.
0.38 P. G. Perrin Albert H. Marckwardt J. B. McMillan, Current English Forum, College English, 1943.
0.38 , Current English Forum, College English, 1961.
0.37 , Current English Forum, College English, 1957.
0.37 William Card Virginia McDavid, English Words of Very High Frequency, College English, 1966.
0.37 George Garrett, Congreve, College English, 1957.
0.37 John Hendrickson, A Question about Contractions: Are All of 'em Colloquial?, College Composition and Communication, 1971.
0.36 Ralph H. Singleton, How to Teach Punctuation, College English, 1944.
0.36 The NCTE Committee on Current English Usage, Current English Forum, College English, 1954.
0.35 Russell Thomas, Cannot Help but, College English, 1948.
0.35 Atcheson L. Hench, Notes on Reading Webster III, College English, 1963.
0.35 , Current English Forum, College English, 1940.
0.35 James Conely, Speling, College Composition and Communication, 1974.
0.35 , Current English Forum, College English, 1959.
0.34 Jean Malmstrom, Ain't, College English, 1965.
0.34 Raven I. McDavid_ Jr., Oughtn't and Hadn't Ought, College English, 1953.
0.34 Gladys D. Haase, Like for, College English, 1950.
0.34 , Current English Forum, College English, 1941.
0.33 , Current English Forum, College English, 1960.
0.33 , Current English Forum, College English, 1939.
0.33 Paul Faris, Two Views of English Usage: Webster's Third and the American Heritage Panel, College English, 1970.
0.33 George S. McCue, Confusion Worse Confounded, College English, 1947.
0.33 The NCTE Committee on Current English Usage, Current English, College English, 1955.
0.33 Gladys D. Haase, Can and May, College English, 1950.
0.33 J. B. McM, Pronunciation of Foreign Names, College English, 1946.
0.32 H. B. Woolf, Dear Mr Webster: The Letters Dictionary Users Write, College Composition and Communication, 1972.
0.32 James T. Nardin, "Having Just Finished Grading Themes Danglers Sound All Right to Me", College Composition and Communication, 1960.
0.32 Frederick Kroeger, American Usage of and etc, College English, 1952.
0.32 Margaret M. Bryant, Current English Forum, College English, 1956.
0.32 P. G. Perrin Albert H. Marckwardt J. B. McMillan, Current English Forum, College English, 1943.
0.32 , Current English Forum, College English, 1944.
0.32 Margaret M. Bryant, Person Their, College English, 1950.
0.31 Norman C. Stageberg, The Adverb Sure: New Evidence, College English, 1953.
0.31 The NCTE Committee on Current English Usage Lorena E. Kemp, Current English Forum, College English, 1954.
0.31 , Current English Forum, College English, 1940.
0.31 Maxine Hairston, Not All Errors Are Created Equal: Nonacademic Readers in the Professions Respond to Lapses in Usage, College English, 1981.
0.31 John A. Higgins, Remedial Students' Needs vs Emphases in Text-Workbooks, College Composition and Communication, 1973.
0.31 Robert J. Connors Andrea A. Lunsford, Frequency of Formal Errors in Current College Writing or Ma and Pa Kettle Do Research, College Composition and Communication, 1988.
0.30 Irene Teoh Brosnahan, A Few Good Words for the Comma Splice, College English, 1976.
0.30 Harold Simpson, A Harmless Crime?, College English, 1952.
0.30 Florence M. Hoagland, A Functional Vocabulary, College English, 1945.
0.30 M. M. Bryant, The Split Infinitive, College English, 1946.
0.30 Dorothy J. Hughes, The Handbooks and the Students a Question of Agreement, College English, 1941.
0.30 Andrea A. Lunsford Karen J. Lunsford, "Mistakes Are a Fact of Life": A National Comparative Study, College Composition and Communication, 2008.
0.29 , Current English Forum, College English, 1941.
0.29 The NCTE Committee on Current English Usage, Current English, College English, 1955.
0.29 , Current English Forum, College English, 1956.
0.29 Harold B. Allen Julius Bernstein Margaret M. Bryant James B. McMillan Kemp Malone Russell Thomas, Current English Forum, College English, 1948.
0.29 Porter G. Perrin Albert H. Marckwardt J. B. McMillan, Current English Forum, College English, 1943.
0.29 The NCTE Committee on Current English Usage, Current English Forum, College English, 1956.
0.29 Adeline C. Bartlett, Expect-Right, College English, 1949.
0.28 Anthony Wolk, Linguistic and Social Bias in the American Heritage Dictionary, College English, 1972.
0.28 Donald W. Lee, The "ei-ie" Rule, College English, 1944.
0.28 , Current English Forum, College English, 1960.
0.28 Ralph M. Williams, A Method for Teaching Spelling to a Group of Seriously Retarded Students, College English, 1955.
0.28 John Fandel, Advanced Composition: Exercise, College English, 1960.
0.28 , Current English Forum, College English, 1959.
0.28 J. Roger Osterholm, Further Splitting over Split Infinitives, College English, 1980.
0.28 Sister M. Bernetta Quinn, Explanation, College English, 1949.
0.27 The NCTE Committee on Current English Usage, The Current English Forum, College English, 1954.
0.27 Adeline Courtney Bartlett, "Vague" Reference of Which That and This, College English, 1949.
0.27 , Current English Forum, College English, 1942.
0.27 Gladys D. Haase, The Placing of Only in the Sentence, College English, 1951.
0.27 , Current English Forum, College English, 1960.
0.27 Albert H. Marckwardt, The Dictionary as a Guide to Pronunciation, College Composition and Communication, 1953.
0.27 , Current English Forum, College English, 1942.
0.27 Lorena A. Kemp Margaret M. Bryant, Current English Forum, College English, 1955.
0.27 Sidney Greenbaum John Taylor, The Recognition of Usage Errors by Instructors of Freshman Composition, College Composition and Communication, 1981.
0.27 Donald A. Bird Margaret M. Bryant, Current English Forum, College English, 1955.
0.27 Raven I. McDavid_ Jr., Notes on the Pronunciation of Catch, College English, 1953.
0.27 , Current English Forum, College English, 1941.
0.27 , Current English Forum, College English, 1941.
0.26 Russell Thomas, The Reason Is Because, College English, 1948.
0.26 Porter G. Perrin Albert H. Marckwardt James B. McMillan Julius Bernstein, Current English Forum, College English, 1945.
0.26 Byron Buck, On Having Mastered "Technical Terms" in Fowler, College English, 1959.
0.26 Charles Allen Lloyd, Does "Concord Based on Meaning" Justify "Their" Referring to "Each" or "Everybody"?, College English, 1939.
0.26 Frank Schnorbus, [Poem], College Composition and Communication, 1972.
0.26 J. B. McM., "Who" and "Whom", College English, 1945.
0.26 Gilbert D. McEwen, College Spelling Clinic, College English, 1952.
0.26 , Current English Forum, College English, 1941.
0.26 Gladys D. Haase, Than, College English, 1949.
0.26 Helene Magaret, The Eye the Ear and the Misspelled Word, College English, 1951.
0.26 Adeline Courtney Bartlett, The Case of the Noun or Pronoun with the Gerund, College English, 1950.
0.26 Anne Palmer, Rules and Concord, College English, 1951.
0.25 Karl W. Dykema, Rondeau on a New Yorker Reviewer in a Temper over a Dictionary, College English, 1963.
0.25 Peter M. Neely, Peter M Neely Responds, College English, 1980.
0.25 Virginia McDavid, More on Ain't, College English, 1964.
0.25 The NCTE Committee on Current English Usage Robert J. Geist, The Current English Forum, College English, 1954.
0.25 Thomas Clark Pollock, Spelling Report, College English, 1954.
0.25 Robert J. Geist, There Is One and, College English, 1952.
0.25 George W. Feinstein, Letter from a Triple-Threat Grammarian, College English, 1960.
0.25 Sheridan Baker, One More on Ain't: Reply, College English, 1965.
0.25 Sheridan Baker, The Error of Ain't, College English, 1964.
0.25 John Frederick Frank, Who and Whom, College Composition and Communication, 1962.
0.25 Elizabeth S. Sklar, The Possessive Apostrophe: The Development and Decline of a Crooked Mark, College English, 1976.
0.25 Walter E. Meyers, A Study of Usage Items, College Composition and Communication, 1972.
0.25 The NCTE Committee on Current English Usage Margaret M. Bryant, Current English Forum, College English, 1956.
0.25 Adeline Courtney Bartlett, Dangling Participles, College English, 1953.
0.25 The NCTE Committee on Current English Usage, Current English, College English, 1955.
0.24 Sheridan Baker, Comments on Comments on Splitting Infinitives, College English, 1980.
0.24 Charles F. Meyer, TEACHING PUNCTUATION TO ADVANCED WRITERS, Journal of Advanced Composition, 1985.
0.24 Raven I. McDavid_ Jr., Pinfeathers for the Ruptured Duck, College English, 1966.
0.24 Anthony Wolk, Addendum to "Linguistic and Social Bias in: The American Heritage Dictionary", College English, 1974.
0.24 , [Correction]:TOWARDS AN EPISTEMOLOGY OF COMPOSITION, Journal of Advanced Composition, 1982.
0.24 Albert H. Marckwardt J. G. Perrin J. B. McMillan, Current English Forum, College English, 1943.
0.24 James M. McCrimmon, Commas and Conformity, College English, 1939.
0.24 , Current English Forum, College English, 1942.
0.24 Nancy Lee Couto, The Punctuation of the Creation as Seen from the Ellipsis, College English, 1967.
0.24 John N. Morris, Such Stuff as Themes Are Made on, College English, 1958.
0.24 Russell Thomas, Concord of the Verb in Relative Clauses after One of, College English, 1951.
0.24 Louise Hening Johnson, That Abomination English Spelling, College English, 1950.
0.24 Michael Hassett, Toward a Broader Understanding of the Rhetoric of Punctuation, College Composition and Communication, 1996.
0.24 Sidney Landau, Shall-Will: A Modern Analysis, College Composition and Communication, 1967.
0.24 Margaret M. Bryant, Done through and Finished, College English, 1948.
0.24 William D. Baker, A Rationale for a "Lay-Off" List, College English, 1955.
0.23 Tristram P. Coffin, An Aid to the Teaching of Punctuation, College English, 1951.
0.23 Thomas F. Dunn, Reply to Professor Warfel, College English, 1953.
0.23 L. E. Wilbur, Bonehead Instructor, College English, 1956.
0.23 Larry Beason, Ethos and Error: How Business People React to Errors, College Composition and Communication, 2001.
0.23 Edwin B. Davis, English Stress Accent, College English, 1943.
0.23 Peter M. Neely, Peter M Neely Responds, College English, 1980.
0.23 Philip B. Gove, Usage in the Dictionary, College English, 1966.
0.23 Adeline Courtney Bartlett, Get Have Got and Have Got to, College English, 1949.
0.23 The NCTE Committee on Current English Usage, Current English Forum, College English, 1955.
0.23 James Sledd, Soap for Burnel's Head, College English, 1964.
0.23 , Current English Forum, College English, 1939.
0.23 James B. McMillan, A Small Plea for Facts before Legislation, College English, 1939.
0.23 , Current English Forum, College English, 1958.
0.23 Kathleen M. Dexter, The Use of Examination Papers in Linguistic Study, College English, 1940.
0.23 Paul R. Sullivan, Building a Usable Spelling List for Classes in Writing, College Composition and Communication, 1953.
0.23 Garland H. Cannon, The "Colloquial" in Freshman Writing, College Composition and Communication, 1959.
0.23 Ethel Strainchamps, Who Is Untuning the String?, College English, 1966.
0.22 Betty Rizzo, Systems Analysis for Correcting English Compositions, College Composition and Communication, 1982.
0.22 Robert Withington, Transplanted Names: Comments on Some Changes of Pronunciation in America Brought about by a Migration across the Atlantic, College English, 1943.
0.22 James Parrish, Motivating College Freshmen to Spell Properly, College English, 1960.
0.22 , Current English Forum, College English, 1941.
0.22 Russell Thomas, The Use of so as an Intensifier, College English, 1951.
0.22 Geneva Meers, Use a Rifle Not a Shotgun, College Composition and Communication, 1959.
0.22 Lorne Kotler Kamala Anandam, A Partnership of Teacher and Computer in Teaching Writing, College Composition and Communication, 1983.
0.22 John S. Kenyon, Cultural Levels and Functional Varieties of English, College English, 1948.
0.22 Nancy Mann, Point Counterpoint: Teaching Punctuation as Information Management, College Composition and Communication, 2003.
0.22 Thomas Friedmann, Teaching Error Nurturing Confusion: Grammar Texts Tests and Teachers in the Developmental English Class, College English, 1983.
0.22 John S. Kenyon, Current English Forum, College English, 1956.
0.22 Joseph Collignon, Why Leroy Can't Write, College English, 1978.
0.22 , Current English Forum, College English, 1942.
0.22 Edna L. Furness Gertrude A. Boyd, 335 Real Spelling Demons for College Students, College English, 1959.
0.22 , Current English Forum, College English, 1940.
0.22 Porter G. Perrin Albert H. Marckwardt J. B. McMillan Julius C. Bernstein, Current English Forum, College English, 1943.
0.21 , Current English Forum, College English, 1943.
0.21 Norman V. McCullough, The Lexical Method as a Significant Factor in Vocabulary Fixation, College English, 1962.
0.21 J. H. McKee, Two Commas or None, College English, 1940.
0.21 Joseph M. Williams, The Phenomenology of Error, College Composition and Communication, 1981.
0.21 Jack Thomas Leahy, Objective Correlation and the Grading of English Composition, College English, 1963.
0.21 Michael Pressler, The Crass Menagerie, College Composition and Communication, 1977.
0.21 Fred Eikel_ Jr., A Theme Project for Freshman English, College English, 1948.
0.21 Peter M. Neely, To Split or to Not Split, College English, 1978.
0.21 Robert C. Pooley, When Does a Participle Dangle?, College English, 1952.
0.21 Archibald A. Hill, The Tainted Ain't Once More, College English, 1965.
0.21 Porter G. Perrin Albert H. Marckwardt J. B. McMillan Julius C. Bernstein, Current English Forum, College English, 1944.
0.21 J. E. Haney, Psyching out Commas: Syntactic and Semantic Relations, College Composition and Communication, 1970.
0.21 William Morris, The Making of a Dictionary 1969. College Composition and Communication, 1969,
0.20 Thomas Pyles, The English of VIPs, College English, 1955.
0.20 , Problems and Techniques of Teaching Spelling: Panel Discussion No 4, College Composition and Communication, 1955.
0.20 Albert H. Marckwardt J. G. Perrin J. B. McMillan, Current English Forum, College English, 1942.
0.20 H. J. Sachs, The Dictionary Habit and Growth in Vocabulary, College English, 1942.
0.20 Archibald A. Hill, Correctness and Style in English Composition, College English, 1951.
0.20 Porter G. Perrin Albert H. Marckwardt J. B. McMillan Julius C. Bernstein, Current English Forum, College English, 1944.
0.20 , Current English Forum, College English, 1940.
0.20 Martin Steinmann_ Jr., Letter to the Editor, College English, 1955.
0.20 Eivion Owen, Latin Words in Students' English, College English, 1943.
0.20 Garland Cannon, Handbooks Dictionaries and Punctuation, College Composition and Communication, 1966.
0.20 Raven I. McDavid_ Jr., Our Initial Consonant "H", College English, 1950.
0.20 John Dawkins Nancy Mann, A Response to "Point Counterpoint: Teaching Punctuation as Information Management", College Composition and Communication, 2004.
0.20 John Dawkins, Teaching Punctuation as a Rhetorical Tool, College Composition and Communication, 1995.
0.20 Martha Kolln, Everyone's Right to Their Own Language, College Composition and Communication, 1986.
0.20 Karl W. Dykema, Criteria of Correctness, College English, 1940.
0.19 Margaret M. Bryant, The End Preposition, College English, 1947.
0.19 Arthur Norman, This Most Cruel Usage: Some Comments on the Problem of Standards, College English, 1965.
0.19 George C. Klinger, A Campus View of College Writing, College Composition and Communication, 1977.
0.19 Howard Lorenzo Buck, The Exception Proves the Rule, College English, 1941.
0.19 Willard Hallam Bonner, Farewell Semicolon?, College English, 1944.
0.19 Edith Crowell Trager, The Systematics of English Spelling, College Composition and Communication, 1957.
0.19 , Current English Forum, College English, 1959.
0.19 , Current English Forum, College English, 1960.
0.19 Albert H. Marckwardt, An Index of Language Prejudice, College English, 1940.
0.19 Marilyn Coffey, Letter about David Pichaske, College English, 1977.
0.19 Amy Lee Spencer, The Reconsidered Error Chart, College English, 1942.
0.19 George N. Dove, A Follow-Up Study of Graduate Teaching of English, College English, 1953.
0.19 , Current English Forum, College English, 1959.
0.19 Edward Stone, On Last Teaching Hawthorne, College English, 1958.
0.19 Howard Hoving, Commas in Dates, College English, 1951.
0.19 Robert L. Wright, Eazily Maastered Orthografy, College Composition and Communication, 1962.
0.19 Robert J. Geist, Anything Goes, College English, 1951.
0.19 Norman V. McCullough, College-Wide English Improvement, College English, 1960.
0.19 , Current English Forum, College English, 1939.
0.19 Porter G. Perrin Albert H. Marckwardt James B. McMillan Julius C. Bernstein, Current English Forum, College English, 1944.
0.18 Russell Thomas, Such as an Intensifier, College English, 1954.
0.18 Robert J. Connors, Handbooks: History of a Genre, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 1983.
0.18 Jean L. Buck, A New Look at Teaching Spelling, College English, 1977.
0.18 Russell Thomas, When-Clauses after Is (Was), College English, 1949.
0.18 Russell Thomas, Notes on the Inflected Genitive in Modern American Prose, College English, 1953.
0.18 Garland H. Cannon, Punctuation and Sentence Rhythm, College Composition and Communication, 1957.
0.18 , Current English Forum, College English, 1957.
0.17 Gary Sloan, Frequency of Errors in Essays by College Freshmen and by Professional Writers, College Composition and Communication, 1990.
0.17 Philip B. Gove, Lexicography and the Teacher of English, College English, 1964.
0.17 Maxine S. Rose, Sexism in Five Leading Collegiate Dictionaries, College Composition and Communication, 1979.
0.17 H. T. Webster, The Canting Language: Some Notes on Old Underworld Slang, College English, 1943.
0.17 , Current English Forum, College English, 1957.
0.17 Thomas V. Broadbent, An Editor's Response, College Composition and Communication, 2000.
0.17 Anthony Wolk, Anthony Wolk Responds, College English, 1980.
0.17 David Bartholomae, The Study of Error, College Composition and Communication, 1980.
0.17 Ken Macrorie, The Hypocracy of Perfection, College English, 1954.
0.17 Kemp Malone, Syllabication, College English, 1957.
0.17 A. M. Tibbetts, The Passionate Reviewer, College Composition and Communication, 1964.
0.17 Mary Vaiana Taylor, The Folklore of Usage, College English, 1974.
0.17 James A. Parrish_ Jr., Using the Panel Discussion to Teach the Short Story, College Composition and Communication, 1960.
0.17 Suzette Haden Elgin, The Top Forty Mistakes in English Usage: A Bulletin, College English, 1982.
0.17 John J. Enck, The Ruptured Duck Flies Again: Webster's Seventh Collegiate, College English, 1966.
0.17 John Dawkins, A Note on Coordinators and Subordinators, College Composition and Communication, 1962.
0.17 Kenneth Eble, Aural Errors in Written Expression, College English, 1963.
0.17 Robert J. Geist, Professors' English, College Composition and Communication, 1952.
0.17 Jane Raymond Walpole, Eye Dialect in Fictional Dialogue, College Composition and Communication, 1974.
0.17 J. H. McKee, Time and Disposition Saver, College English, 1952.
0.16 Mitford M. Mathews, The Freshman and His Dictionary, College Composition and Communication, 1955.
0.16 , Correction: Misplaced Quotation Marks: A Study of Usage Items, College Composition and Communication, 1972.
0.16 The NCTE Committee on Current English Usage, Current English, College English, 1955.
0.16 H. Alan Wycherley, Help for the Problem Speller, College Composition and Communication, 1955.
0.16 Jane McClellan, A Clinic for Misspellers, College English, 1978.
0.16 Ellen Johnson, A Simpler Approach to Punctuation, College English, 1954.
0.16 Barry M. Kroll John C. Schafer, Error-Analysis and the Teaching of Composition, College Composition and Communication, 1978.
0.16 Lodwick Hartley, How Does One Pronounce?, College English, 1945.
0.16 Porter G. Perrin Albert H. Marckwardt J. B. McMillan Julius C. Bernstein, Current English Forum, College English, 1944.
0.16 Walter E. Meyers, Reply to Harvey S Wiener, College English, 1971.
0.16 R. L. Irwin, On Dropping the "Ize", College English, 1951.
0.16 Elizabeth S. Sklar, The Tribunal of Use: Agreement in Indefinite Constructions, College Composition and Communication, 1988.
0.16 Margaret M. Bryant, Current English Forum, College English, 1961.
0.15 Porter G. Perrin James B. McMillan Julius C. Bernstein, Current English Forum, College English, 1944.
0.15 , Current English Forum, College English, 1957.
0.15 Debra Hawhee, Composition History and the Harbrace College Handbook, College Composition and Communication, 1999.
0.15 H. Lee Gershuny, Response to Maxine S Rose "Sexism in Five Leading Collegiate Dictionaries", College Composition and Communication, 1980.
0.15 Catherine Lynch Patricia Klemans, Evaluating Our Evaluations, College English, 1978.
0.15 Bertha M. Watts, Discordant Views on Concord, College English, 1946.
0.15 Norman Lavers, Strephosymbolia: A Possible Strategy for Dealing with It, College English, 1981.
0.15 Jeffrey F. Huntsman Janet R. Binkley, Two Comments on Peter M Neely's "To Split or to Not Split", College English, 1980.