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Chris -- 2018-04-11

#1 2006-06-01 15:24:26

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Registered: 2006-05-19
Posts: 16

by enlarge

Luckily, school’s out! Besides the eggcorn, there are at least five other errors in only two sentences: two “its”, two “who”, and one “then”.

From an actual teacher on a teacher-centric newsgroup—K12.chat.teacher (news://newsgroups.comcast.net:119/25udn … resnan.com)

“By enlarge you get better pay and better benefits in the Public School
System.
But in the Private School System, its more about who they keep out, then who
they let in, so its a trade off really.”

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