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You're listening to Away With Words, the Shell About Language, and how we use it.

I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett.

Benjamin Dreyer is Vice President, Executive Managing Editor and Copy Chief for Random House,

and now he is the author of a highly opinionated book about language,

called Dryers English, an utterly correct guide to clarity in style,

which kind of gives you a sense of the tone right there.

He's being ironic right? Yes. Yes and one of the things he does is to challenge

readers to go a whole week without writing the following words,

vary, rather, really, quite, actually, surely,

just in the sense of merely, so in the sense of extremely,

and pretty, as in pretty pedantic.

And he also throws in the phrases of course and in fact and that said and he says

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