I just got to read that stuff, 10 very interesting things that are really quite amazing, perhaps literally so, or maybe not. ;) It reminds me of the famous Umb

I just got to read that stuff, 10 very interesting things that are really quite amazing, perhaps literally so, or maybe not. ;) It reminds me of the famous Umberto Eco's rules for writing well: http://gioclairval.blogspot.com/2010/02/umberto-ecos-rules-for-writing-well.html http://gioclairval.blogspot.com/2010/02/umberto-ecos-rules-f... About the 10 words to cut listed in your post, a few are debatable, but the got to be cut in "I got up this morning" seems to me completely off, it seems to me perfectly correct, and "wake" has a different meaning from "get up".