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  • I will say “obviously” “not correct”. If India would’ve made till here, it’s a perfect sentence and therefore does not make sense without a context. “till” is usually associated with time (till now), so “till here” is not a good phrasing. To here, or its equivalent would be better. Similarly “could” makes better sense than “would”.

    “Here” refers to a point in some playoff series, I suggest “If India had (or could have) made it to this point, then….” .

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  • Asked on March 5, 2021 in Other.

    By convention in both American and British usage, we normally begin letters with “Dear”, as in “Dear Sir” or “Dear Madam” or “Dear Mr Jones” or “Dear Betty”, but no particular affection is meant or implied by such usage. Did you use “dear” elsewhere in the letter would normally express affection (unless you’re using the word to

    mean “expensive” or similar).

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  • Asked on March 3, 2021 in Other.

    I agree with Ash–use “earliest”, as in “earliest opportunity”. In the days before phones were still comparatively rare, people sent telegrams, not emails. Telegraph companies (e.g. UK Telecom) which were established in Britain between 1894 and 1982. Why is the amount of letters so low, people want to write “soonest” (7 letters) rather than “at the earliest opportunity” (24 letters and 3 spaces). Now that many people think about this, we’ll write “soonest” (as opposed to “as soon as possible”. How did the French call the telecommen “telegraphese”? Is Victor Hugo using the television network to get the number of characters in his book “sold out”? When the publishers cabled Hugo back the one character novel I was writing in 2014, they didn’t reprint the concept. What sort of publicity would have hit the publisher? What

    does “p.org” mean?

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