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Thanks to Steve Heap of Alchemy Corporate Training in Malaysia for adding some more words that people often confuse or misuse to my list.

George Osborne, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, has the reputation of a master political strategist in the media and in Westminster.

People tend to think the suffragettes were the only feminist movement before and during the First World War. This is an oversimplification at best. Feminism was never a united force.

Many people around the developed world are anxious to lose, or at least not to put on, weight. Women particularly seem to be paying a lot of attention to keeping their weight down.

The number of bankruptcies of specialist food producers (as of September) increased by 28% year on year in the UK. This includes wholesale (1) bakeries, pasta makers, fish processors and ready meal manufacturers.

A 26-year-old woman is due to marry an 80-year-old killer. To boot (1), the killer is bound to spend the rest of his days in prison. Why would anybody want to marry him?

Sometimes hotel staff have a look at the guest’s belongings. One guest at an undisclosed (1) city in the US decided to leave a camera in his unoccupied room. The camera had been turned on (2).

“We would love to finish what we started some years ago … I think millions of people would one day love the chance to go to space.” This is what Richard Branson, the US space entrepreneur, said following the death of one of his pilots two weeks ago.

Mid-term elections in the US are approaching. However, not many people seem inspired by them. There is a huge difference between mid-term and presidential elections.