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Submission, perfection and pass

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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Forum: Wobbling one's way along in words - Ian Gordon on freewheeling in another language.

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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Forum: A case of adverbial disjunctivitis? - Ian Gordon warns you to use adverbs with caution

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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Forum: In my beginning is my end - Ian Gordon thinks that to understand a language we need to consider all aspects of linguistics

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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Forum: The strange case of the lower case - Ian Gordon has been examining the beginnings of words

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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Forum: Genetics as it is spoken - The link between genes and language

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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Forum: Under the spell of spelling: Ian Gordon advises scientists struggling to write their papers

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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Forum: How to stop missing the point - Scientists don't have to stumble over punctuation, says Ian Gordon

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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Forum: Getting above myself - Ian Gordon discovers he has a penchant for honorary degrees

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