Again, you’re right, Bob. I feel succeeded :-)
Chris
> On 1 Mar 2015, at 15:01, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hummm . . . cough! cough! . . . another itty bitty nit to pick: use of word
> “like” tells us that the word following is not included in the category,
> which in your case, “like ‘unique’”, it certainly is. In such constructions
> the correct phrase is “such as”, which includes the term or terms following.
> “Misuse of words such as ‘unique’ or ‘literally . . .” Clumsy sounding
> sometimes, and a bit snobby though, I’ll give it that. <g>
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