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Overused types of words

And how to catch them.
Perhaps by the use of a handy Greasemonkey script?
Geoffrey Pullum at LanguageLog isn’t convinced. (Great spelling of Geoffrey, Geoffrey.)
And the comments on LifeHacker are illuminating. One:
Over use of any type of word (or a single word itself) is poor writing.
If this is the case, perhaps we should have scripts which highlight [...]