I will probably get some heat over validating the use of “as per” in business correspondence, but it truly doesn’t bother me. There are, however, some words that make writing sound dated (and I don’t mean “so last week.”) Using these words in your writing can make it sound “turn of the century before last.” So can over-using floating quotation marks, but I’ll talk about that next week. While it’s true that everything comes back in style eventually — even poufy hair, for goodness sakes! — I don’t think we’ll see these words hitting the top of the keyword lists [Read more…]