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New2grammar Posted 18 years ago
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00We've been short of batteries for the past 2 months and have sent a couple of emails to your department to remind you of our situation. We hope that you'll expediate the process and this battery situation will be a thing in the past very soon. Thank you.02br
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00Are there any mistakes? Thanks in advance!0-
  

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1blockquote 01cite 10New2grammar12cite 10Hi there, 12br 12br 10We've been short of batteries for the past 2 months and have sent a couple of emails to your department to remind you of our situation. We hope that you'll expediate the process and this battery situation will be a thing in the past very soon. 12br 12br 10Are there any mistakes?

  • 1blockquote 01cite 10New2grammar12cite 10Hi there, 12br 12br 10We've been short of batteries for the past 2 months and have sent a couple of emails to your department to remind you of our situation.
  • We hope that you'll expediate the process and this battery situation will be a thing in the past very soon.
  • 12br 12br 10Are there any mistakes?
  • 12br 12blockquote 10Just one spelling error that I can see.
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01cite10New2grammar12cite10Hi there, 12br
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10We've been short of batteries for the past 2 months and have sent a couple of emails to your department to remind you of our situation. We hope that you'll expediate the process and this battery situation will be a thing in the past very soon. Thank you.12br
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01cite10RayH12cite11blockquote
11cite20New2grammar22cite22br
20Hi there, 22br
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20We've been short of batteries for the past 2 months and have sent a couple of emails to your department to remind you of our situation. We hope that you'll expediate the process and this batter
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0Hi RayH02br
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00We've been short of batteries for the past 2 months and have sent a couple of emails to your department to remind you of our situation. We hope that you'll 01b00expedite02b00 the process and this battery situation will be a thing 01b00in the02b00 01b00past02b00 very soon. Thank you.02b
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0Thanks YL. I'll keep that in mind0-
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01cite10Yoong Liat12cite10Shouldn't it be ... 11i10a thing 11b10of 12b10the past12i10 ... ?12blockquote
10It should indeed. My bad. 050010id1
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The word expediate is on dictionary.com. It means to expedite. If this is not a word, why is it listed there.
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AnonymousThe word expediate is on dictionary.com. It means to expedite. If this is not a word, why is it listed there.

If you will note the word is marked as obsolete. [Obs.]
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I can't see expediate being marked as "obs".

I've always used the word expedite and have no idea why the word expediate has suddenly made an appearance.

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