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Incorrect or non-standard usage, overuse etc
I seldom go to parties
The problem
overuse
The use of this word is not incorrect but it is very much overused in preference to more common words in Standard English such as rarely
Frequency
Note the frequency of the following adverbs in the British National Corpus:
rarely (2405)
occasionally (2506)
seldom (5334)
Standard English
I rarely go to parties
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