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Are you certain?

Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 in Misused words and expressions

Certainly. Used indiscriminately by some speakers, much as others use very, to intensify any and every statement. A mannerism of this kind, bad in speech, is even worse in writing.

From: William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style, 1918.

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