1. Spam email from Grammarly:
Apply to Jobs With Confidence.
Sorry, I don’t have confidence in a grammar and style app that thinks ‘apply to jobs’ is preferable, and doesn’t capitalize consistently. You ‘apply for jobs’ and you ‘apply to General Motors’. (If you had good afterlife connections you might ‘apply to Jobs’ for a job at Apple, but that’s a bit unlikely.)
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2. Noticed an oddity:
Prove — proof.
Disprove — disproof.
Reprove — reproof.
Improve — improvement.
Approve — approval.
Improve is weird in other ways. The ‘regular’ antonym of improving should be deproving. Instead, the closest antonym is declining. The ‘regular’ antonym of declining should be inclining, which works in a specialized geographical sense but doesn’t work with the most common uses of both words.
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3. Spokane is rich in contradictory street names.
West Eastmont
East Westview
West Carolina
South Virginia
North Virginia
North Dakota
Dakota is the street itself. It doesn’t continue south of the N/S line, so there’s no South Dakota.
East North Foothills
East South Foothills
East North Riverton
East South Riverton
West North River
West South River
East North Crescent
East South Crescent
These arise from an oblivious developer who made a set of North/South pairs on both banks of the river.
North North-South Corridor
The North-South Corridor is a bypass that was needed from 1950 to 2000, started construction in 2000 after it was no longer needed, and still isn’t finished after 25 years of EPA-caused delays and expenses. If it ever gets finished, it might end up just south of the N/S line where it would join I-90. But for the next 50 years it’s all North, so the directional North is unneeded.
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