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Fore or for? (And not forgetting four. . .)
Consider the following sentences, all real examples taken from the Oxford English Corpus (OEC). Are the words in bold spelled correctly? ? According to the weather forcast it wasn’t supposed to snow in Birmingham today. ? I’ll never foreget any of you. ? His two sons are twenty-two and forteen years old. Pat yourself on the [...]
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