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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 ... combination of twojournalistic locutions: (1) reversal of thechronological order of events, often withafter, in an effort to update the news; and (2) use of condition in a specialsense, that of a...

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... DON’T and DOESN’T; USETO 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 comprisepeople, 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 ... writing, (1) an opinion of the doc- tor and (2) an opinion of the doctor’shave two different meanings. First, theopinion concerns the doctor; second, theopinion is held by the doctor. In speak-ing,...

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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 ... error: man-lay off and layoff 2 09 02-F–L_4 10/22/02 10:30 AM Page 2 09 in, “We’ll draw lots”; and a number of people or things considered as a group,as in “They’re a sorry lot” and “Howmuch for...

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... instead it refers readersto OD ( 195 5 to 196 0) 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 ... instance, sayovercautious and reject “overly cau-tious.”The Random House Dictionary listsabout 1,500 over- words. The Oxford English Dictionary has 83 pages of over-words, many of which it prefers...

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... Belgium”); and (c) introducesthat dependent clause, serving as thesubject 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 oppositionto the regime.” As it stands, “the curbing of public meetings” and “the publication of newspapers” ... of 7: “It could be donewithout unduly 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...

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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 ... AM Page 4 19 VICE-PRESIDENT-IN-CHARGE- OF- EVAPORATED-CONDENSED- AND MALTED MILK-CHEESE-MINCE MEAT -AND- CARAMELSARTHUR W. RAMSDELL AND VICE-PRESIDENT-IN-CHARGE- OF- CASEIN-ADHESIVES -AND- PRESCRIPTION-PRODUCTS...

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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: AvenelBooks, copyright 196 4, 198 2 ed.———, American Usage: The Consen-sus, ... Press, 199 4.A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, Bryan A. Garner, New York, Oxford,England: Oxford University Press, 198 7. Dictionary of Quotations, BergenEvans, New York: Delacorte Press, 196 8.The...

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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 1,500” 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 ... writing, (1) an opinion of the doc- tor and (2) an opinion of the doctor’shave two different meanings. First, theopinion concerns the doctor; second, theopinion is held by the doctor. In speak-ing,...

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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 ... 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 come froma book of true adventure, an editorial,an ... 1 79 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) and sure (of orto).4. Possessive with gerundJust...

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