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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 ... estimated that about 3 million American girls, most of them between the ages of 9 and 15, took off a day from school yesterday to go to work with their parents or other...
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... DON’T and DOESN’T; USE TO and USED TO (regarding did). DOESN’T. See DON’T and DOESN’T. DONE. See DO, DID, DONE. done 99 01-A-E_4 10/22/02 10: 29 AM Page 99 emergency coordinator to warn of a tor- nado ... 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...
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... 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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... instead it refers readers to OD ( 195 5 to 196 0) and defines that. OD as an abbreviation (often with dots) can stand for many things, includ- ing doctor of optometry, of cer of the day, Old Dutch, ordnance ... 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...
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... 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 ... “The curbing of public meetings and the publication of newspapers eliminated most opposition to the regime.” As it stands, “the curbing of public meetings” and “the pu...
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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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... Publishing Co., 199 0. Britannica Book of English Usage, Christine Timmons and Frank Gib- ney, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Britannica Books, 198 0. Byrne’s Standard Book of Pool and Bil- liards, ... Sykes, Ox- ford, England: Clarendon Press, 197 6. Roy H. Copperud, Webster’s Dictionary of Usage and Style, New York: Avenel Books, copyright 196 4, 198 2 ed. ———, A...
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... 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 ... idiom and not considered wrong. Nobody minds when the possessive is a pronoun instead of a noun: friends of mine and a dress of hers. Nobody is likely to say “friends...
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... 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 ... form (with his brother in The King’s English, 190 6) and publicize it (in his famous Dictionary of Modern English Usage, 192 6). The four examples below...
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