Since 2011, Ben Yagoda, author of How to Not Write Bad, has been tracking Anglocreep on his blog, Not One-Off Britishisms.
Treaties on climate change, after all, are not one-offs.
"Law enforcement agencies believe that a sweep has a much more powerful deterrent effect on would-be criminals because they can see that prosecutions are not one-off events," he said.
He blogs for the Chronicle of Higher Education and his own site, Not One-Off Britishisms.
Here, the vast majority of revenue comes from subscriptions, not one-off sales.
"If people believe that the events we've seen in Iraq are not one-off events, it will affect their investments".
If you want to convert leads into sales, your business blog needs loyal fans, not one-off visitors.
It plans to fund the job-creation scheme with a one-off "windfall tax" on the privatised utilities, even though the costs of any such scheme will be recurring, not one-off.
The fact that these alleged offences were not one-off incidents, but are said to have been repeated over a period of 36 hours, seems to have influenced the decision to brand them as war crimes.
"In online games, they don't necessarily choose their teammates, so they have to negotiate whose strengths are used at what time," says Sanford. "These are not one-off strategies.
"This isn't a tried and tested formula, it's an experiment," announced Marcus Mumford in the closing moments of this inaugural and hopefully not one-off UK version of Mumford & Sons Stopoverr festival, an event purposely held in out of the way locations which has already been successfully deployed in sites across America.
