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... dis- tinguished from a consensus of authority, of evidence, of faith, of taste, of testimony, and so on. In any case, “consensus of does not go with “some kind of Mafia involve- ment” (in the third ... supply and de- mand, sweetness and light, sword of Damocles, take pot luck, tilt at wind- mills, tip of the iceberg, tit for tat, under a cloud, under the aegis of, vicio...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pps
... single member of a particular group, which can comprise people, things, or animals. Often of fol- lows, as in “every one of our 1,500” and “each and every one of our clients.” The of and its object ... Perhaps the writer of the headline knew better and was try- ing to achieve some kind of effect, be- sides the effect of making the newspaper seem illiterate and causin...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 potx
... also LAY OFF and LAYOFF. The main standard meanings of let go are to release from confinement (“Let my people go”), to release one’s hold (“He let go [or “let go of ] the rope”) and to abandon or ... rare kind of stone.” The same principle holds for class of, sort of, and type of. “A gnu is a type of antelope.” 3. Properly used with A or AN Kind of in another sense may go wi...
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... The Americans had the choice of not blowing them out of the sky; the choice of talking instead of shooting; the choice of going home. Life presents most of us with in- numerable choices, and ... can weary of overlong blocks of writing. An extreme example is seen in Webster’s Third Dictionary, where paragraphs reach lengths of some four thousand words (take and turn). N...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_7 docx
... Belgium”); and (c) introduces that dependent clause, serving as the subject of its verb (lives or comes). (See THAT and WHICH; WHO, THAT, and WHICH.) PROOF and EVIDENCE. See EVI- DENCE and PROOF. PROOF ... raising the price of coal or of jeopardizing new trade.” Omit the second of; no preposition belongs there at all. See also ADVOCATE; FREE, 1; OFF and “OFF OF ; ON, 2; WH...
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... judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. . . . . . . For the sake of God, and for the bettering of our realm, and for the more ready healing of the discord which has arisen between us and ... FORWARD and BACK (time); GO OFF and GO ON; GREAT; SCAN. • Pairs with opposite meanings. See Confusing pairs (energize and enervate, hyper- and hypo-, and sanction and...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_9 doc
... long stretches of human history.” May one also protest the lowering of standards of English usage and all that fuzziness? THAT and WHICH. 1. The differ- ence. 2. Indiscriminate WHICH; mix-up of THAT and ... not ready to write of “Italian Navigator and Discoverer of the New World Christo- pher Columbus,” or of “Commander of the Continental Army in the American Rev...
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... Bugbears and Out- moded Rules of English Usage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1 971 . ———, Dos, Don’ts & Maybes of En- glish Usage, New York: Times Books, 1 977 . Black’s Law Dictionary, ... Press, 1 976 . Roy H. Copperud, Webster’s Dictionary of Usage and Style, New York: Avenel Books, copyright 1964, 1982 ed. ———, American Usage: The Consen- sus, New York...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pptx
... single member of a particular group, which can comprise people, things, or animals. Often of fol- lows, as in “every one of our 1,500” and “each and every one of our clients.” The of and its object ... Joseph Priestley was a scientist and the discoverer of oxy- gen. He was also a philosopher, politi- cian, and theologian, and in the 176 0s he wrote The Rudiments of...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_4 potx
... BORN CAPITAL and CAPITOL COMPLEMENT and COMPLI- MENT EXERCISE and EXORCISE FAUN and FAWN FAZE and PHASE GRISLY, GRIZZLY, and GRIZZLED HEROIN and HEROINE INCIDENCE and INCIDENT ITS and IT’S LEAD (verb) and ... 179 text. Examples are the nouns chance (of or to) and intention (of or to), verbs fail (at or to) and think (of or to), and adjec- tives sorry (about or to...
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