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I think Kate's suggestion could work, but I would expand that first half of the sentence to at least a couple of sentences.QuoteIn recent years, health care agencies and providers have increased efforts to improve breastfeeding rates. [sentence or two explaining those efforts] However, despite these efforts, breastfeeding rates in many countries still fall short of agency recommendations.
Someone posted elsewhere that he learned from reading a certain set of (British) novels that you need an apostrophe when you write phone - or 'phone, as he wrote in his post. The references I checked showed this is not currently accepted usage in modern British English, but I'm guessing it might have been at some point. I can even see why it might have been.
The references I saw also used "bus" (shortened from omnibus) as an example of a word that does not need an apostrophe. But I think I may have seen in written as 'bus in some older literature, actually.
Any information on the history of this usage?
The letter y also represents a vowel in Welsh.It sometimes does in English too, though. I have heard versions of the vowel song that end "and sometimes Y".
By me, "orientate" is the most annoying.
If I understand correctly, "orientate" is the more common usage in the UK.
And I suspect they don't care if you find it annoying.
Oh, and "by you" is more a Jewish thing than a New York thing. It's a Yiddish-influenced inflection.
Now I wonder if it's also common in areas that have had a lot of German speakers, too.