From pericles@temple.edu Wed Jan 1 06:06:51 2003 Received: from mxu7.u.washington.edu (mxu7.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.165]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h01E6pCK021984 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 06:06:51 -0800 Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mxu7.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h01E6mJV029857 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 06:06:49 -0800 Received: from [68.46.158.203] (pcp01851440pcs.audubn01.nj.comcast.net [68.46.158.203]) by mtaout04.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.07 (built Nov 25 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H81000P1GHJB1@mtaout04.icomcast.net> for classics@u.washington.edu; Wed, 01 Jan 2003 09:05:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 09:06:17 -0500 From: Dan Tompkins Subject: Overused words 2002 To: classics@u.washington.edu Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Here is the URL for the annual list of overused words. It includes at least one phrase ('that said' -- a genitive absolute? -- that I'm partial to, but such is life). All in all, a useful piece: http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current/default.html Daniel P. Tompkins Director, Intellectual Heritage Program Temple University 214 Anderson Hall, 1114 West Berks Street Philadelphia, PA 19122-6090 215/204 4900; 215/204-2359 (fax) pericles@temple.edu Check our website: http://courses.temple.edu/ih .