The idiom police, if you will
Today's "Candorville," by Darrin Bell:
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Recording what is said at a meeting
The awful thing about the documentation policy adopted by Amber, who has clearly started a campaign to get Dilbert fired for bullying, is that her idea of taking down what is said at a meeting is to record illocutionary rather than locutionary acts.
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Hated words
The most recent xkcd distills a concentrated essence of word rage and word aversion triggers:
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Penultimate
Sometimes more is less. In Frazz for 6/6/2011, Caulfield is frustrated that Mrs. Olsen is among those who think that the first syllable of penultimate is some kind of emphatic particle:
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Don't try this at home
Following up on my posts about locative denominal verbs, yesterday's SMBC: 
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