REDUNDANT: “exceeding what is necessary or normal: superfluous” — Merriam-Webster Online
CNN.com | June 18, 2010: So now you’re abandoned and redundant, wondering whether it’s OK to go see the latest Pixar without a youngster in hand. Yes, it’s OK; you owe it to yourself.
Are you redundant if your children are grown? No, even if you’re the [...]

CNN.com | July 21, 2010: “One man’s duplication is another man’s competitive analysis,” Clapper said of the newspaper’s assertion that there are excessive redundancies within the nation’s intelligence agencies.
CNN.com | July 19, 2010: We work constantly to reduce inefficiencies and redundancies, while preserving a degree of intentional overlap among agencies to strengthen analysis, challenge conventional thinking, and [...]

CARELESS: “1. Taking insufficient care; negligent: a careless housekeeper; careless proofreading; 2. Marked by or resulting from lack of forethought or thoroughness: a careless mistake; 3. Showing a lack of consideration: a careless remark; 4. Unconcerned or indifferent; heedless: careless of the consequences.” — American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Searching for stock music is agony enough. Getting the [...]

IN LIEU: “instead” — New Oxford American Dictionary
You can’t get any more succinct than that. I would have never thought in lieu, as “I accepted store credit in lieu of a refund,” would be in question. Then, on May 5, I receive this email:
And in lieu of today’s date, the baby’s name will be Juanita Margarita.
You [...]

Spotted on Failbook, in re: signage, usage, lineage…

And The Award For Convoluted Legalese Goes To… (heard on NPR)
“A new award recognizes the worst in ‘official’ writing — and attempts to shame governments and companies into communicating better. The Center for Plain Language hopes the award will encourage clear and useful writing.” (read the story at NPR.org)
A whole institution devoted to clarity in [...]

DISINTERESTED: “free of bias and self-interest; impartial” — The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
For our ultimate Glitterary Week article, I have dragged out disinterested, which some of you expressed an interest in. I thought it was well-known that disinterested means “impartial,” and that uninterested referred to someone who was blasé. Obviously that is not [...]

DUPLICITOUS: “deceitful: treacherous, duplicitous behavior” — New Oxford American Dictionary
A friend relates this tale:
I once had a …meeting with someone who used the word “duplicitous” about a million times, when she meant “duplicate.” I couldn’t figure out a nice way to say, “So, you hope the invitations aren’t sneaky and underhanded?”
Why be nice? This is [...]

School funding issue dominates council debate
March 12, 2010
…The Republicans targeted what they view as waste in the city’s budget. They particularly rallied around an early statement by Craig that placed city government budget growth over the last decade at $83 million.
“I think that there’s room in that $83 million delta between 2000 and 2010 to [...]

http://www.caseandpoint.com
Another suggestion, this time submitted via Facebook. Our reader writes:
Nothing like naming your software company after a misheard idiom.
I have not heard this one personally, but a quick Google search (I searched for “case and point” in quotation marks) reveals a small, but troubling proliferation of this incorrect construction. Will it become the next mute [...]