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 [...]

“I think etiquette is spelt incorrectly…”
This forwarded by a friend (a designer, but I forgive her that) who recognized its rich irony. I did look spelt up and found that it is an accepted (chiefly British) spelling of spelled, but not before I replied that this client barley knew her English.
— Otto E. Mezzo

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/magazine/21edlet-t.html
The Times announces Ben Zimmer is the new William Safire. Huzzah!

I was cleaning out my inbox when I came upon this gem.
— Otto E. Mezzo

> Per your request, [website] can be altered via any number of best
> practices strategies available to the company at this present time.
> Suggestions that can be made leveraging the latest technologies to
> incent conversion and user engagement consist of:
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> • [...]

DELTA: “1. the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet (Δ, δ); 2. the consonant sound represented by this letter; 3. the fourth in a series of items; 4. anything triangular, like the Greek capital delta (Δ); (Mathematics) an incremental change in a variable, as Δ or δ; (Geographic) a nearly flat plain of alluvial deposit between diverging branches of the mouth of a river, [...]

Leverage the strength of collective buying
We leverage best practices…
Leverage strategic partnerships with major vendors
I stopped counting after the third slide. The presenter really leveraged my attention away to a YouTube video of a lip-synching hamster. The twee rodent used not one word wrong and he used verbs.
— Otto E. Mezzo