50 Cliches Of Gray: In Defense Of Old Truisms : The Protojournalist : NPR - 1 views
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The word police at Lake Superior State University in Michigan have been trying to strike the phrase from public discourse since 1999.
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"English is a very dynamic language," says David F. Beer, a retired writing professor at the University of Texas at Austin, "and parts of it are always growing or dropping off. And we don't have an English Academy as the French do to tell us what is right and what is wrong in the language. Thus cliches such as 'at the end of the day' are to be found all over the language.
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While some hoary sayings occasionally fall by the wayside — for lots of reasons, such as a rise in social awareness — others will be with us from here to eternity.
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