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Originally Posted by Jim Schaddelee
With that said, the one thing that drive me nuts is at almost every regional I have been to is the phrase " team blah blah graciously excepts " the team member should state " team blah blah humbly excepts teams blah blah Gracious offer" calling oneself gracious is not gracious .
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That systemic misuse of "gracious" has bothered me for many, many years!
Ur was a city in ancient Mesopotamia. Also,
Ur is the name given to the earliest known continental landmass.
While spelling and word choice are easy,
real nitpickers mull over things like proper form for
ellipses (
not the geometric shape

) and the distinctions between the
minus sign, the
hyphen and the
various dashes.