In a report on a company closure I came across the phrase: "approximately 81 positions were lost". Obviously "approximately" doesn't belong next to 81 so I changed it to "approximately 80". Then I thought for a moment and changed the phrase to "about 80 jobs were lost".
Why do some writers instinctively assume that longer words are somehow better?
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