Sentence examples for language incorrectly from inspiring English sources

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The Home Office has announced new English tests for migrants – but spelled "language" incorrectly.

Example: "When someone uses gendered language incorrectly, they might offend someone else" is now officially accepted as a correct usage, since "they" can be used as a singular pronoun and thus, in this instance, agrees with the singular "someone".

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During his first term in parliament, Playford also gained attention for his unconvincing command of the English language; he developed a reputation for pronouncing common words incorrectly, bad syntax and speaking in a monotone.

Says Brody, Yes the language was strong and bold from the pulpit but reporters interpreted the words incorrectly by painting a much broader brush than what was intended.

The tagger is constructed for natural language while rubrics in medical terminology systems often contain words or rubrics in Latin and Greek, which sometimes cause the tagger to tag words incorrectly.

NATIONAL An article on Tuesday about the controversy surrounding Paula Deen's admission during a deposition in a discrimination lawsuit that she used racist language paraphrased incorrectly from her testimony.

An article in Science Times on Tuesday about efforts to construct a genealogy of the world's languages referred incorrectly to the Indo-European family.

A Critic's Notebook article on Saturday about performances in foreign languages referred incorrectly to the production of the Russian play "K..I.

Correction: March 4 , 2001 Sunday The Frugal Traveler column on Jan . 28 about learning foreign languages, referred incorrectly to the origin of Hangul, the Korean alphabet.

Correction: March 18 , 2004 Thursday An article in Science Times on Tuesday about efforts to construct a genealogy of the world's languages referred incorrectly to the Indo-European family.

Because of an editing error, the TV Watch article yesterday, about television on the eve of the election in Florida, a swing state, translated the name of a Spanish-language program incorrectly.

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