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[Barbara Need]

"Due to the fact that" is overused by college students. They all seem  
to have been told not to start a sentence with "Because"—to avoid  
fragments, but they overgeneralize.

Barbara

Barbara Need
Etna, NY

On 18 Sep 2014, at 9:16 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> "Due to the fact (that)..."
>
> is so overused in BE by speakers ranging from boojies to boiz in the  
> 'hood
> that It annoyed me to see it in print. Is a simple "because" infra  
> dig?

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