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Never use a long word where a short one will do.
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Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.
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It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.
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What is another name for a Thesaurus?
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When we turned right on Thirty-fifth Street our suffix came along. By the time we rolled to the curb in front of Wolfe's house there wasn't even hyphen between us.
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Acronyms are hard enough to remember on their own, but when letters aren't acronyms they become even more confusing. For example, neither RT nor ARM is an acronym.
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Company names without clear pronunciation or spelling won't last.
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The word "fine" is the greatest abbreviation and obviously wrong.
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Excessive use of made up acronyms is a significant impediment to communication and keeping communication good as we grow is incredibly important.
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The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.
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The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication.
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I don't much like things to go by somebody's name, like the 'Bob Jones Group Jam Band.'
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A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words.
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And what better way to get people talking than by creating a new word.
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If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it.
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Love your name. I don't want to cheat myself out of a single syllable.
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When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations.
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What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.
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Antanaclasic, which means that it keeps using the same word in different senses.
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As we shall see, the tractable apostrophe has always done its proper jobs in our language with enthusiasm and elegance, but it has never been taken seriously enough; its talent for adaptability has been cruelly taken for granted; and now, in an age of supreme graphic frivolity, we pay the price.
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If you write science fiction you can spell things the way you like, sometimes.
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We all have some proper noun to blame.
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We tried to trademark proximity, but you can't because it's a word,
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Except when it didn't, as in the case of names that already end in an s, such as Jones' book (a practice that is now out of style).
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I have a "Do Not Disturb" sign on my hotel door. It's time to go to "Don't Disturb". It's been "Do Not" for too long. We should embrace the contraction.
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Email to Eric from Bill:
GFY. Let me know if you need help with that abbreviation Sheriff.
Bill
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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
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He also thought that 'abbreviation' was too long for its meaning, that 'monosyllabic' should have one syllable, 'dyslexic' should be renamed 'O' and 'unspeakable' should be respelt 'unsfzpxkable.
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One misspoken word and the world will no longer know you.
Mark Andrew Ramsay
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'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'
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first four letters, and used to write them out
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Any word with the our ending could be spelt or, don'tchaknow." "Like neighbor instead of neighbour?" "It's a good idea," put in Snell. "Labor, valor, flavor, harbor - there must be hundreds. If we confine it to one geographical area, we can claim it as a local spelling idiosyncrasy.
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Use of the word; the word itself was not printed.
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I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some."
Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.
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Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on.
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Call it what you like.
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Etc. is a perfect word-when you can't think of the right one.
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manuscript
meanuscript
moanuscript
manurescript
and so on
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I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.
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By-and-by is easily said.
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Add one little bit on the end ... Think of 'potato,' how's it spelled? You're right phonetically, but what else ... ? There ya go ... alright!
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[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.
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IwantedtoshowmyuniformtomymomthismorningsoIwenttogetmytrashbagand-
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Always say the proper name for everything-
Fear of the name increase fear of the thing itself.
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Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.
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Reginald, the dog-bear," I repeated.
"Or bear-dog," she reminded me.
"That's terrible," I said in mock solemnity. "He's already not sure what he is- a dog, a bear ... a bog ... "
She giggled.
"And then you tag him with the name Reginald?" I shook my head.
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Remember, "I" before "E", except in Budweiser.
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I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe ... and probably a period. I'm a huge fan of punctuation.
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If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.
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Interesting capitalization,' I said.
'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.
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AMISSION (AMI'SSION) n.s.[amissio, Lat.]Loss.
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Aoibheann ("Who on earth could pronounce that?
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X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.
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I'm not a synonym - I'm a proper noun.
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I'm trying to cut down my cursing.
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I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.
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TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.
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There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.
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Omit needless words.
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Okay, A as in apple - Not apple. A as in anus, it's a different sound.
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Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.
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prestidigitator,
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I find the ass in compound with the major part of your syllables.
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Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy.
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Right then," Campbell began, his tone so civil it was offensive. "May I have your name for the record, Miss ... ?"
"Eliza Braun," Eliza sneered. "Here, I'll spell it for you
B-U-G-G-E-R-O-F-F.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words ...
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do a typing and shorthand
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Don't repeat this word again
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I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.
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When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I was a little kid, I have been really into royals and aristocracy. So to make Lord more feminine, I just put an 'e' on the end! Some people think it's religious, but it's not.
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My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'
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Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
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Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
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I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.
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Check it out. I got a new name tag today." He unclipped it and held it out toward me.
I looked at it. "A. GUY."
He grinned. "Someone actually asked me what the A stood for," he said, his hand brushing mine as he took the tag back, sliding it into his pocket. "I said Larry.
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I'd like to give divorce a good name.
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L -Life
I -Is
F -For
E -Entertainment
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I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.
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One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.
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An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favour of doing it.
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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. 'tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
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S-U-C-I-D-E
Do You want to end everything with only six alphabets?
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A chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell.
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getting ahead of me, but that is correct. Say it
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[Sarah has had the middle finger of her left hand amputated] and she says that when she types:
I can't rely on E,D, and C anymore. They go missing when I need them most. Pleased becomes please. Ecstasies becomes stasis.
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Worldfoam. I like that. It sounds fluffy.
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Alliteration seems to offend people.
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But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.
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Abilene (AB-a-lene) adj. Descriptive of the pleasing coolness on the reverse side of the pillow.
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My wife says OBE stands for Old Big 'Ead.
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I want my name to mean me.
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If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.
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People get uncomfortable that word.
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Desserts is just stressed spelled backwards.
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A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.
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ABNODATION (ABNODA'TION) n.s.[abnodatio, Lat.] The act of cutting away knots from trees;a term of gardening.Dict.