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that seemingly denotes endorsement.
I wish that the word ''wish" would disappear from Acknowledgments. Wish is a perfectly good word when you mean
wish, as in "I wish you success." However, if you say "I wish to thank John Jones," you are wasting words. You may
also be introducing the implication that "I wish that I could thank John Jones for his help but it wasn't all that great." "I
thank John Jones" is sufficient.
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