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Never use a long word where a short one will do.
Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.
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.
What is another name for a Thesaurus?
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.
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.
Company names without clear pronunciation or spelling won't last.
The word "fine" is the greatest abbreviation and obviously wrong.
Excessive use of made up acronyms is a significant impediment to communication and keeping communication good as we grow is incredibly important.
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.
The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication.
I don't much like things to go by somebody's name, like the 'Bob Jones Group Jam Band.'
A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words.
And what better way to get people talking than by creating a new word.
If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it.
Love your name. I don't want to cheat myself out of a single syllable.
When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations.
What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.
Antanaclasic, which means that it keeps using the same word in different senses.
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.
If you write science fiction you can spell things the way you like, sometimes.
We all have some proper noun to blame.
We tried to trademark proximity, but you can't because it's a word,
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).
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.
Email to Eric from Bill:
GFY. Let me know if you need help with that abbreviation Sheriff.
Bill
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
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.
One misspoken word and the world will no longer know you.
Mark Andrew Ramsay
'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'
first four letters, and used to write them out
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.
Use of the word; the word itself was not printed.
I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.
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.
Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some."
Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.
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.
Call it what you like.
Etc. is a perfect word-when you can't think of the right one.
manuscript
meanuscript
moanuscript
manurescript
and so on
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.
By-and-by is easily said.
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!
[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.
IwantedtoshowmyuniformtomymomthismorningsoIwenttogetmytrashbagand-
Always say the proper name for everything-
Fear of the name increase fear of the thing itself.
Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.
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.
Remember, "I" before "E", except in Budweiser.
I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe ... and probably a period. I'm a huge fan of punctuation.
If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.
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.
AMISSION (AMI'SSION) n.s.[amissio, Lat.]Loss.
Aoibheann ("Who on earth could pronounce that?
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.
I'm not a synonym - I'm a proper noun.
I'm trying to cut down my cursing.
I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.
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.
There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.
Omit needless words.
Okay, A as in apple - Not apple. A as in anus, it's a different sound.
Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.
prestidigitator,
I find the ass in compound with the major part of your syllables.
Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy.
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.
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words ...
do a typing and shorthand
Don't repeat this word again
I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.
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.
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!'
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.
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.
I'd like to give divorce a good name.
L -Life
I -Is
F -For
E -Entertainment
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.
One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.
An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.
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.
Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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.
S-U-C-I-D-E
Do You want to end everything with only six alphabets?
A chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell.
getting ahead of me, but that is correct. Say it
[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.
Worldfoam. I like that. It sounds fluffy.
Alliteration seems to offend people.
But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.
Abilene (AB-a-lene) adj. Descriptive of the pleasing coolness on the reverse side of the pillow.
My wife says OBE stands for Old Big 'Ead.
I want my name to mean me.-- Mark Haddon
If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.
People get uncomfortable that word.
Desserts is just stressed spelled backwards.
A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.
ABNODATION (ABNODA'TION) n.s.[abnodatio, Lat.] The act of cutting away knots from trees;a term of gardening.Dict.