I'm a young Fogarty and you can think of me as your friendly guide to the English language.

Writing, history, rules, and cool stuff.

Today I have a segment from Joel Schwartzberg about writing better email and it has already

changed the way I write my emails.

It's great stuff.

And given the times we're in, I have a segment about where we get the words pandemic and

epidemic and what makes them different and a segment about why you see two different

spellings for the word canceled.

Let's get started.

If you had to deliver a speech, would you knowingly choose the wrong title, bury your point

or say things that would get you in trouble with your colleagues or bosses?

Of course not.

But many of us unconsciously do these things while writing work emails all the time.

They're not just sloppy though.

These common errors can dilute and even destroy the impact you're hoping to achieve as well

as sabotage your credibility.

Here are seven of the most destructive email mistakes and how you can avoid them.

Mistake number one is a subject line that the thread has outgrown.

Few things are more misleading than a new thought living under an old subject line.

When your subject line is re re re Tuesday, your recipient isn't going to know that you've

hit upon breakthrough marketing ideas since you initially scheduled a routine meeting for

Tuesday.

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