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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 notgo with “some kind of Maﬁa involve-ment” (in the third ... estimatedthat about 3 million American girls,most of them between the ages of 9 and 15, took off a day from schoolyesterday to go to work with theirparents or other adults and get acloser look at ... supply and de-mand, sweetness and light, sword of Damocles, take pot luck, tilt at wind-mills, tip of the iceberg, tit for tat, undera cloud, under the aegis of, vicious circle,wear and tear,...

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... single member of a particular group, which can comprisepeople, things, or animals. Often of fol-lows, as in “every one of our 1 ,50 0” and “each and every one of our clients.” The of and its object ... idiom and notconsidered wrong.Nobody minds when the possessive isa pronoun instead of a noun: friends of mine and a dress of hers. Nobody islikely to say “friends of me” or “a dress of her.”In ... writer of the headline knew better and was try-ing to achieve some kind of effect, be-sides the effect of making the newspaperseem illiterate and causing hundreds of English teachers to grimace in...

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... also LAY OFF and LAYOFF.The main standard meanings of let goare to release from conﬁnement (“Letmy people go”), to release one’s hold(“He let go [or “let go of ] the rope”) and to abandon or ... rarekind 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 ANKind of in another sense may go witha. Being a kind of ... expression of sympathy with aperson in distress; condolence, an ex-pression of such sympathy; and sympa-thy, an understanding of and a sharing inone’s grief, pain, or other feelings.METAL and METTLE....

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... instance, sayovercautious and reject “overly cau-tious.”The Random House Dictionary listsabout 1 ,50 0 over- words. The Oxford English Dictionary has 83 pages of over-words, many of which it prefers ... it refers readersto OD (1 955 to 1960) and deﬁnes that.OD as an abbreviation (often withdots) can stand for many things, includ-ing doctor of optometry, of cer of theday, Old Dutch, ordnance ... TheAmericans had the choice of not blowingthem out of the sky; the choice of talkinginstead of shooting; the choice of goinghome. Life presents most of us with in-numerable choices, and...

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... thesubject of its verb (lives or comes).(See THAT and WHICH; WHO,THAT, and WHICH.)PROOF and EVIDENCE. See EVI-DENCE and PROOF.PROOF OF THE PUDDING. Theproverb about proof and pudding per-plexes ... raising the price of coalor of jeopardizing new trade.” Omit thesecond of; no preposition belongs thereat all.See also ADVOCATE; FREE, 1; OFF and “OFF OF ; ON, 2; WHENCE and “FROM WHENCE”; ... thought.Their function of setting off part of asentence resembles that of dashes and parentheses. (See 4, 7.) In general, com-mas least interrupt the ﬂow of the sen-tence.When the set-off matter comes...

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... judgment of his peers orby the law of the land. . . . . . . For the sake of God, and forthe bettering of our realm, and for themore ready healing of the discordwhich has arisen between us and ... FORWARD and BACK (time); GO OFF and GOON; GREAT; SCAN.• Pairs with opposite meanings. SeeConfusing pairs (energize and enervate, hyper- and hypo-, and sanction and sanctions);DISINGENUOUS and INGENUOUS; ... be a sentence itself).Place and in front of “pays” and “bank” and the ﬁrst “put.”The job of mayor carries little inthe way of patronage, pays only $5, 000 a year and the incumbent . . .is always...

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... longstretches of human history.” May onealso 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 ... notready to write of “Italian Navigator and Discoverer of the New World Christo-pher Columbus,” or of “Commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolution and Father of His CountryGeorge ... redundant. (See also COMPAREDTO and COMPARED WITH, 1;REALLY.)The ﬁnal quotation is from a maga-zine essay by a professor of English, protesting the lowering of standards of behavior: “. . . Common...

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... Webster’s Dictionary of Usage and Style, New York: AvenelBooks, copyright 1964, 1982 ed.———, American Usage: The Consen-sus, New York: Van Nostrand Rein-hold, 1970.———, American Usage and Style: ... Bugbears and Out-moded Rules of English Usage, NewYork: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,1971.———, Dos, Don’ts & Maybes of En-glish Usage, New York: Times Books,1977.Black’s Law Dictionary, ... Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, 2 vol., Oxford,England: Oxford University Press,1971.The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Cur-rent English, 6th ed., J. B. Sykes, Ox-ford, England: Clarendon...

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... single member of a particular group, which can comprisepeople, things, or animals. Often of fol-lows, as in “every one of our 1 ,50 0” and “each and every one of our clients.” The of and its object ... idiom and notconsidered wrong.Nobody minds when the possessive isa pronoun instead of a noun: friends of mine and a dress of hers. Nobody islikely to say “friends of me” or “a dress of her.”In ... 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 newspaperseem illiterate and causing hundreds of English teachers...

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... BORNCAPITAL and CAPITOLCOMPLEMENT and COMPLI-MENTEXERCISE and EXORCISEFAUN and FAWNFAZE and PHASEGRISLY, GRIZZLY, and GRIZZLEDHEROIN and HEROINEINCIDENCE and INCIDENTITS and IT’SLEAD (verb) and ... 179text. 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) and sure (of orto).4. Possessive with gerundJust ... LEDLOATH and LOATHEMARSHALNAVAL and NAVELPRINCIPAL and PRINCIPLEPronouns, 8.Punctuation, 1B.RACK and WRACKSHEAR, 1.TO, TOO, and TWOTROOP, TROOPS, and TROUPEVerbs, 2 (medal)WHOSE, 2YOUR and...

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