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Medalling with English – making jargon work for you

Medalling with English – making jargon work for you

by Pernickety Kate | Oct 1, 2017 | Editing, Grammar, Proofreading, Words

I first wrote this blog post this time last year, when it seemed only a hop, skip and jump in time since we’d been enthralled by the Olympics and Paralympics in Rio. And it wasn’t just medals that got the media buzzing, but medalling. We all know that a medal is...

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