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Spotlight on Common Errors |
 Affect/Effect: Affect is primarily used as a transitive verb and means to influence: 'Smoking may affect your health'. As a noun, it has a specialised medical meaning that relates to emotional states (as in affection).
On the other hand, the word effect is chiefly used as a noun: 'The damaging effects of smoking'. As a verb, it means to accomplish: 'They effected a change'.
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Word Focus |
Lex-i-con: n.pl. lexicons or lexica
defn: A dictionary, or the vocabulary of
a person, group, subject, or language. etym: From the Greek word lexikon biblion meaning 'book of words' and lexis meaning 'word'.
(Shorter Oxford English Dictionary)
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Head Office: LPS, Lexicon House, Al Rosais Complex, Riyadh, KSA
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The Lexicon Team comprises a group of experienced English language
professionals
- all native English speakers. Our consultants have all studied at leading institutions in the United Kingdom and have a minimum of five years academic or industrial linguistic experience. Additionally, we enforce a strict recruitment policy to ensure we hire only the best language experts.
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Our team is geographically split between our offices in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) and Manchester (UK). This enables us to work onsite with our clients in the UK and Middle East should the need arise.
Please refer to our careers section if you wish to become part of our team.
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