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Abbreviation
An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning short) is a shortened form of a word or phrase.
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Alan Hodge
Alan Hodge (16 October 1915 – 25 May 1979) was an English historian and journalist.
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American and British English spelling differences
Many of the differences between American and British English date back to a time when spelling standards had not yet developed.
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Americas
The Americas (also collectively called America)"America." The Oxford Companion to the English Language.
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Americas (terminology)
The Americas, also known as America,"America." The Oxford Companion to the English Language.
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And/or
And/or (also and or) is a grammatical conjunction used to indicate that one or more of the cases it connects may occur.
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Article (grammar)
An article (with the linguistic glossing abbreviation) is a word that is used with a noun (as a standalone word or a prefix or suffix) to specify grammatical definiteness of the noun, and in some languages extending to volume or numerical scope.
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Barbarism (linguistics)
A barbarism is a non-standard word, expression or pronunciation in a language, particularly one regarded as an error in morphology, while a solecism is an error in syntax.
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Begging the question
Begging the question is a logical fallacy which occurs when an argument's premises assume the truth of the conclusion, instead of supporting it.
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Bracket
A bracket is a tall punctuation mark typically used in matched pairs within text, to set apart or interject other text.
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Brian Barder
Sir Brian Leon Barder (20 June 1934 – 19 September 2017) was a British diplomat, author, blogger and civil liberties advocate.
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British English
British English is the standard dialect of English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom.
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Comma
The comma is a punctuation mark that appears in several variants in different languages.
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Comma splice
In English grammar, a comma splice or comma fault is the use of a comma to join two independent clauses.
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Common English usage misconceptions
This list comprises widespread modern beliefs about English language usage that are documented by a reliable source to be misconceptions.
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Comparison of American and British English
The English language was first introduced to the Americas by British colonization, beginning in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
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Comprised of
Comprised of is an expression in English: X "is comprised of" Y means that X is composed or made up of Y. While its use is common in writing and speech, it has been disparaged by some language professionals and style guides as an inappropriate substitution for comprises.
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Date and time notation in the United Kingdom
Date and time notation in the United Kingdom records the date using the day-month-year format (21 October 2011 or 21/10/11).
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Double copula
The double copula, also known as the reduplicative copula, double is or Isis, is the usage of two successive copulae when only one is necessary, largely in spoken English.
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Ebbesbourne Wake
Ebbesbourne Wake is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, approximately south-west of Salisbury.
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English modal verbs
The modal verbs of English are a small class of auxiliary verbs used mostly to express modality (properties such as possibility, obligation, etc.). They can be distinguished from other verbs by their defectiveness (they do not have participle or infinitive forms) and by the fact that they do not take the ending -(e)s in the third-person singular.
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English passive voice
The passive voice is a grammatical "voice".
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English plurals
English nouns are inflected for grammatical number, meaning that if they are of the countable type, they generally have different forms for singular and plural.
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English relative clauses
Relative clauses in the English language are formed principally by means of relative pronouns.
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English usage controversies
In the English language, there are grammatical constructions that many native speakers use unquestioningly yet certain writers call incorrect.
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English verbs
Verbs constitute one of the main word classes in the English language.
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English writing style
An English writing style is a way of using the English language.
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Ernest Gowers
Sir Ernest Arthur Gowers (2 June 1880 – 16 April 1966) is best remembered for his book Plain Words, first published in 1948, and for his revision of Fowler's Modern English Usage.
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Espresso
Espresso is coffee brewed by expressing or forcing out a small amount of nearly boiling water under pressure through finely ground coffee beans.
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Exception that proves the rule
"The exception proves the rule" is a saying whose meaning has been interpreted or misinterpreted in various ways.
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False scent
A false scent or false trail is an incorrect scent which may mislead an animal which hunts by smell, especially a hound.
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Fewer vs. less
According to prescriptive grammar, "fewer" should be used (instead of "less") with nouns for countable objects and concepts (discretely quantifiable nouns, or count nouns).
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Fjord
Geologically, a fjord or fiord is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier.
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Follett's Modern American Usage
Follett's Modern American Usage is the book published with the title Modern American Usage which was left in draft form and unfinished by Wilson Follett at his death.
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Fowler
Fowler may refer to.
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Francis George Fowler
Francis George Fowler (1871–1918), familiarly known as F. G. Fowler and sometimes Frank Fowler, was an English writer on English language, grammar and usage.
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Full stop
The full point or full stop (British and broader Commonwealth English) or period (North American English) is a punctuation mark.
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Garner's Modern English Usage
Garner's Modern English Usage (GMEU), written by Bryan A. Garner and published by Oxford University Press, is a usage dictionary and style guide (or 'prescriptive dictionary') for contemporary Modern English.
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Gender
Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity.
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Gerund
A gerund (abbreviated) is any of various nonfinite verb forms in various languages, most often, but not exclusively, one that functions as a noun.
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Given name
A given name (also known as a first name, forename or Christian name) is a part of a person's personal name.
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Guernsey
Guernsey is an island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.
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Harold Ross
Harold Wallace Ross (November 6, 1892 – December 6, 1951) was an American journalist who co-founded The New Yorker magazine in 1925 and served as its editor-in-chief from its inception until his death.
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Hart's Rules
Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford – today published under the short title New Hart's Rules – is an authoritative reference book and style guide published in England by Oxford University Press (OUP).
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Hello
Hello is a salutation or greeting in the English language.
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Hendiadys
Hendiadys (a Latinized form of the Greek phrase ἓν διὰ δυοῖν, hèn dià duoîn, "one through two") is a figure of speech used for emphasis—"The substitution of a conjunction for a subordination".
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Henry Watson Fowler
Henry Watson Fowler (10 March 1858 – 26 December 1933) was an English schoolmaster, lexicographer and commentator on the usage of the English language.
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I before E except after C
"I before E, except after C" is a mnemonic rule of thumb for English spelling.
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Idiom dictionary
An idiom dictionary is a dictionary or phrase book that lists and explains idioms – distinctive words or phrases having a figurative meaning that goes beyond the original semantics of the word(s).
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Inanimate whose
The inanimate whose refers to the use in English of the relative pronoun whose with non-personal antecedents, as in: "That's the car whose alarm keeps waking us up at night." The construction is also known as the whose inanimate, non-personal whose, and neuter whose.
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Irony
Irony, in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case.
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Irregardless
Irregardless is a word sometimes used in place of regardless or irrespective which has caused controversy since the early twentieth century, though the word appeared in print as early as 1795.
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Irrelevant conclusion
Irrelevant conclusion, also known as ignoratio elenchi (an ignoring of a refutation) or missing the point, is the informal fallacy of presenting an argument that may or may not be logically valid and sound, but (whose conclusion) fails to address the issue in question.
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Language for specific purposes dictionary
A language for specific purposes dictionary is a reference work which defines the specialised vocabulary used by experts within a particular field, for example, architecture.
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Language Report
The Language Report (or, strictly, the language report) was an account of the state and use of the English language published by the Oxford University Press (OUP) in 2003.
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Linguistic prescription
Linguistic prescription, or prescriptive grammar, is the attempt to lay down rules defining correct use of language.
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List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1971–80)
The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites castaways to choose eight pieces of music, a book (in addition to the Bible - or a religious text appropriate to that person's beliefs - and the Complete Works of Shakespeare) and a luxury item that they would take to an imaginary desert island, where they will be marooned indefinitely.
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List of English words with disputed usage
Some English words are often used in ways that are contentious between writers on usage and prescriptive commentators.
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List of English writers (D-J)
List of English writers lists writers in English, born or raised in England (or who lived in England for a lengthy period), who already have Wikipedia pages.
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List of Latin phrases (E)
Additional sources.
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List of Latin phrases (I)
Additional sources.
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List of non-fiction writers
The term non-fiction writer covers vast numbers of fields and writers.
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List of Old Rugbeians
This is a List of Old Rugbeians, they being notable former students – known as "Old Rugbeians" of the Church of England school, Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.
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List of style guide abbreviations
This list of style guide abbreviations provides the meanings of the abbreviations that are commonly used as short ways to refer to major style guides.
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List of style guides
A style guide or style manual is a set of standards for the writing and design of documents, either for general use or for a specific publication, organization or field.
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Long and short scales
The long and short scales are two of several large-number naming systems for integer powers of ten that use the same words with different meanings.
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Merriam–Webster's Dictionary of English Usage
Merriam–Webster's Dictionary of English Usage is a usage dictionary published by Merriam-Webster, Inc., of Springfield, Massachusetts.
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MEU
MEU may refer to.
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Modern American Usage
Modern American Usage may refer to.
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Mohammedan
Mohammedan (also spelled Muhammadan, Mahommedan, Mahomedan or Mahometan) is a term for a follower of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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Ms.
"Ms" or "Ms." (normally, but also, or when unstressed)Oxford English Dictionary online, Ms, n.2.
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Muslim
A Muslim (مُسلِم) is someone who follows or practices Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion.
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Nigger
In the English language, the word nigger is a racial slur typically directed at black people.
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North America
North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.
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Noun adjunct
In grammar, a noun adjunct or attributive noun or noun (pre)modifier is an optional noun that modifies another noun; it is a noun functioning as a pre-modifier in a noun phrase.
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Octopus
The octopus (or ~) is a soft-bodied, eight-armed mollusc of the order Octopoda.
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Outline (list)
An outline, also called a hierarchical outline, is a list arranged to show hierarchical relationships and is a type of tree structure.
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Pen name
A pen name (nom de plume, or literary double) is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their "real" name.
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Pleonasm
Pleonasm is the use of more words or parts of words than are necessary or sufficient for clear expression: for example black darkness or burning fire.
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Plural form of words ending in -us
In English, the plural form of words ending in -us, especially those derived from Latin, often replaces -us with -i. There are many exceptions, some because the word does not derive from Latin, and others due to custom (e.g., campus, plural campuses).
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Plurality (voting)
A plurality vote (in North America) or relative majority (in the United Kingdom) describes the circumstance when a candidate or proposition polls more votes than any other, but does not receive a majority.
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Politics and the English Language
"Politics and the English Language" (1946) is an essay by George Orwell that criticised the "ugly and inaccurate" written English of his time and examines the connection between political orthodoxies and the debasement of language.
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Practical English Usage
Practical English Usage is a standard reference book aimed at foreign learners of English and their teachers written by Michael Swan.
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Preposition stranding
Preposition stranding, sometimes called P-stranding, is the syntactic construction in which a preposition with an object occurs somewhere other than immediately adjacent to its object; for example, at the end of a sentence.
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Prig
A prig is a person who shows an inordinately zealous approach to matters of form and propriety—especially where the prig has the ability to show superior knowledge to those who do not know the protocol in question.
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Proper adjective
In English orthography, the term proper adjective is sometimes applied to adjectives that take initial capital letters, and the term common adjective to those that do not.
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Quotation marks in English
In English writing, quotation marks or inverted commas, also known informally as quotes, speech marks, quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks, are punctuation marks placed on either side of a word or phrase in order to identify it as a quotation, direct speech or a literal title or name.
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Received Pronunciation
Received Pronunciation (RP) is an accent of Standard English in the United Kingdom and is defined in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary as "the standard accent of English as spoken in the south of England", although it can be heard from native speakers throughout England and Wales.
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Robert Allen (lexicographer)
Robert E. Allen (born 1944) is a British lexicographer who has written, edited, and published a wide range of books about the English language.
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Robert Burchfield
Robert William Burchfield CNZM, CBE (27 January 1923 – 5 July 2004) was a lexicographer, scholar, and writer, who edited the Oxford English Dictionary for thirty years to 1986, and was Chief Editor from 1971.
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Sarcasm
Sarcasm is "a sharp, bitter, or cutting expression or remark; a bitter gibe or taunt".
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Sedbergh School
Sedbergh School is a co-educational independent boarding school in the town of Sedbergh in Cumbria, in North West England.
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Sentence clause structure
In grammar, sentence clause structure is the classification of sentences based on the number and kind of clauses in their syntactic structure.
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Serial comma
In English language punctuation, a serial comma or series comma (also called an Oxford comma or a Harvard comma) is a comma placed immediately before the coordinating conjunction (usually and or or) in a series of three or more terms.
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Sex and gender distinction
The distinction between sex and gender differentiates a person's biological sex (the anatomy of an individual's reproductive system, and secondary sex characteristics) from that person's gender, which can refer to either social roles based on the sex of the person (gender role) or personal identification of one's own gender based on an internal awareness (gender identity).
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Singular they
Singular they is the use in English of the pronoun they or its inflected or derivative forms, them, their, theirs, and themselves (or themself), as an epicene (gender-neutral) singular pronoun.
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Sobriquet
A sobriquet or soubriquet is a nickname, sometimes assumed, but often given by another.
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Solecism
A solecism is a phrase that transgresses the rules of grammar.
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Split infinitive
In the English language, a split infinitive or cleft infinitive is a grammatical construction in which a word or phrase comes between the to and the bare infinitive of the to form of the infinitive verb.
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Structural coloration
Structural coloration is the production of colour by microscopically structured surfaces fine enough to interfere with visible light, sometimes in combination with pigments.
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Style (book)
F. L. Lucas's Style (1955) is a book about the writing and appreciation of "good prose", expanded for the general reader from lectures originally given to English Literature students at Cambridge University.
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Style guide
A style guide (or manual of style) is a set of standards for the writing and design of documents, either for general use or for a specific publication, organization, or field.
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Tautology (grammar)
In grammar, a tautology (from Greek tauto, "the same" and logos, "word"/"idea") is a statement that has repetitive or redundant wording.
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The Cambridge Guide to English Usage
The Cambridge Guide to English Usage by Pam Peters is a usage dictionary, giving an up-to-date account of the debatable issues of English usage and written style.
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The Complete Plain Words
The Complete Plain Words, titled simply Plain Words in its 2014 revision, is a style guide written by Sir Ernest Gowers, published in 1954.
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The Elements of Style
The Elements of Style is a prescriptive American English writing style guide in numerous editions.
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The King's English
The King's English is a book on English usage and grammar.
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The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities
The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities is a book by James Thurber first published in 1931 by Harper and Brothers.
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The Sense of Style
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century is a 2014 English style guide written by cognitive scientist, linguist and popular science author Steven Pinker.
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They
They is the third-person plural personal pronoun (subjective case) in Modern English.
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Third-person pronoun
A third-person pronoun is a pronoun that refers to an entity other than the speaker or listener.
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Tire
A tire (American English) or tyre (British English; see spelling differences) is a ring-shaped component that surrounds a wheel's rim to transfer a vehicle's load from the axle through the wheel to the ground and to provide traction on the surface traveled over.
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Usage
Usage is the manner in which written and spoken language is used, the "points of grammar, syntax, style, and the choice of words", and "the way in which a word or phrase is normally and correctly used".
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Verbosity
Verbosity or verboseness is speech or writing that uses more words than necessary (for example, using "Despite the fact that" instead of "Although").
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Viz.
The abbreviation viz. (or viz without a full stop), short for the Latin italic, is used as a synonym for "namely", "that is to say", "to wit", or "as follows".
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Wardour Street English
Wardour Street English, sometimes simply Wardour Street, refers to a pseudo-archaic form of diction affected by some writers, particularly those of historical fiction.
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Welsh rarebit
Welsh rarebit (spelling based on folk etymology) or Welsh rabbit (original spelling) is a dish made with a savoury sauce of melted cheese and various other ingredients and served hot, after being poured over slices (or other pieces) of toasted bread, or the hot cheese sauce may be served in a chafing dish like a fondue, accompanied by sliced, toasted bread.
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While
"While" is a word in the English language that functions both as a noun and as a subordinating conjunction.
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Wisteria
Wisteria is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae (Leguminosae), that includes ten species of woody climbing vines that are native to China, Korea, and Japan and as an introduced species to the Eastern United States.
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