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Your out-of-office e-mail may be saying too much between the lines. Mike Pilewski tells you how to get it right.

It's OK to mispronounce words in a foreign language, but do avoid the V-as-W mistake. Mike Pilewski explains why.

Dagmar Taylor writes: "My daughter wanted to watch little Robbie Williams play tricks on people."

An inflation of intensifiers has been corrupting the English language, says Mike Pilewski.

Knowing the right words can prevent you from sounding like a child in a foreign language, says Mike Pilewski.

Joanna Westcombe takes a sideways look at prepositions, to go with our special pull-out this month.

"It doesn't matter how well your e-mail is written if nobody opens it," writes Mike Pilewski.

"Not all of us invent new words — but Sarah Palin does," writes Dagmar Taylor.