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Due diligence meets Hoi Polloi

O What is Due diligence?

O What is Hoi Polloi?

O How are Due diligence and Hoi Polloi are connected?

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Due Process used in a Sentence

O

As for “due diligence,” first recorded in 1598, “due” means appropriate, sufficient, or proper. This sense of the adjective has been in use since around 1400.

The word “diligence” here carries more of an active than a passive sense. It means care and attention, industry, endeavor, and effort to accomplish what is undertaken.

So “due diligence” means something like “the necessary care” or “the effort required.” And one can “exercise” or “perform” or “do” it.

Due diligence: Common Errors of Usage

O Many individuals like to spell due diligence

as do diligence. It is important not to make

this mistake because it completely changes

the meaning of the word.

O Due is also the correct spelling when one’s

bill is due, “when ‘giving someone his or her

due’ or ‘giving credit where credit is due.’”

Due diligence used in a Sentence

If you exercise

your due

diligence by

turning in the

money you

found, it could

legally be yours

after sixty days if

no one claims it.

Understanding Due diligence in Detail

O https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5VilC54rc4&list=WLAveafO2Rp8FlY93PcjVbNjCNnkyLF5Hb

Due diligence vs. Hoi Polloi

Companies need to give

credit (due diligence) to the

common people (hoi polloi).

When due diligence is

deserved instead of being

only in favor of the rich.

Hoi Polloi [hoi puh-loi]

Hoi Polloi is a Greek

word referring to the

common people. In

our society Hoi Polloi

would refer to the

middle class. One

could also say that Hoi

Polloi means the

general population.

Hoi Polloi used in a sentence

O “The cost of the

tickets for the

concert was

ridiculously high in

an attempt to keep

out the hoi polloi”

(Manser).

Hoi Polloi: Common Errors of Usage

O Hoi Polloi is Greek for the common people, but many misuse the word, thinking that Hoi Polloi is used to describe the wealthy.

O This word is often misused because many English speakers are reminded of adjectives “high” and/or “hoity-toity” when they see “Hoi.”

Hoi Polloi: Tips and Rules for Correcting Common

Errors

“Some urge that since ‘hoi’ is the article, ‘the hoi polloi’ is redundant; but the general rule is that articles such as ‘the’ and ‘a’ in foreign language phrases case to function as such in place names, brands, and catch phrases except for some of the most familiar ones in French and Spanish, where one recognizes ‘la’-for instance-as meaning ‘the.’ ‘The El Nino’ is redundant, but ‘the hoi polloi’ is standard English” (Brians, 102).

Hoi Polloi can be used negatively!

The term Hoi Polloi is

usually used by those

who believe they are

above a group of

people. The word Hoi

Polloi usually means "

the ignorant masses",

or "the common

people.”

Synonyms of Hoi Polloi in

the English language

include: Bum, High School

Drop out, Fast Food

Worker, etc.

Hoi Polloi: History

O Hoi polloi, is an expression from Greek that means the many or, in the strictest sense, the majority. In English, it means the working class, commoners, the masses or common people in a derogatory sense. Synonyms for hoi polloi which also express the same or similar contempt for such people include "the great unwashed", "the plebeians" or "plebs", "the rabble", "riff-raff", "the herd", "the proles" and "peons". The phrase became known to English scholars probably from Pericles' Funeral Oration, as mentioned in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. Pericles uses it in a positive way when praising the Athenian democracy, contrasting it with hoi oligoi, "the few" Its current English usage originated in the early 19th century, a time when it was generally accepted that one must be familiar with Greek and Latin in order to be considered well educated. The phrase was originally written in Greek letters. Knowledge of these languages served to set apart the speaker from hoi polloi in question, who were not similarly educated

Why is it important to stay free from common errors in our

writing?

O It is important to stay free from errors in our writing

because similar words can completely change the

meaning of our sentences. In the workforce, we are

judged by how well we communicate in our emails and

other documents.

Wrap Up!

O Due process: deals with established rules

O Due diligence: Effort required to carry out a task

O Hoi Polloi: Ancient Greek term that means the common people

Works Cited:• “Due Process.” The American Heritage Dictionary. 3rd ed.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1993.

• Paul Brian’s “Common Errors in English Usage” Website:

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html

• Manser, Martin H., and David Pickering. The Facts On File

Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases. New York: Facts

on File, 2002. Print