The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong Use of Words, and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those who Would Speak and Write with ProprietyD. Appleton, 1911 - 337 sayfa |
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Sayfa 55
... White says that con- versationalist and agriculturalist are inadmissible . On the other hand , Dr. Fitzedward Hall says : " As for conversa- tionist and conversationalist , agriculturist and agricultural- ist , as all are alike ...
... White says that con- versationalist and agriculturalist are inadmissible . On the other hand , Dr. Fitzedward Hall says : " As for conversa- tionist and conversationalist , agriculturist and agricultural- ist , as all are alike ...
Sayfa 87
... White says on the subject of its use : " I have yet to discover what a man means when he addresses a letter to John Dash , Esqr . He means no more nor less than when he writes Mr. ( master ) . The use of Esq . is quite as prevalent in ...
... White says on the subject of its use : " I have yet to discover what a man means when he addresses a letter to John Dash , Esqr . He means no more nor less than when he writes Mr. ( master ) . The use of Esq . is quite as prevalent in ...
Sayfa 88
... White . Euphemism . A description that describes in inoffen- sive language that that is of itself offensive , or a figure that uses agreeable phraseology when the literal would be offen- sive , is called a euphemism . Everlastingly ...
... White . Euphemism . A description that describes in inoffen- sive language that that is of itself offensive , or a figure that uses agreeable phraseology when the literal would be offen- sive , is called a euphemism . Everlastingly ...
Sayfa 135
... White , in his Words and Their Uses , expresses his opinion of the locution is being in this wise : " In bad eminence , at the head of those intruders in language which to many persons seem to be of established respectability , but the ...
... White , in his Words and Their Uses , expresses his opinion of the locution is being in this wise : " In bad eminence , at the head of those intruders in language which to many persons seem to be of established respectability , but the ...
Sayfa 137
... White , by a most peculiar process of ratiocination , endeavors to prove that what Dr. Worcester calls ' this new form ' came into existence just fifty - six years ago . He pre- mises that in Jarvis's translation of Don Quixote ...
... White , by a most peculiar process of ratiocination , endeavors to prove that what Dr. Worcester calls ' this new form ' came into existence just fifty - six years ago . He pre- mises that in Jarvis's translation of Don Quixote ...
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adjective adverb American appears authority better built called careful writers clause Cobbett comma common correct diction Dictionary doubt ellipsis employed England English English language erly error euphonious example expression following sentence frequently gentleman give grammar grammarians Grant White hear idiomatic imperfect tense improperly incorrect intended John kind lady language Latin less live locution look matter means Metonymy mind mood N. Y. Sun never nice noun object old English one's opinion participle passive persons phrase plural preposition present pronoun proper word qualify rarely reference reflexive pronouns relative relative pronouns rhetoric Richard Grant White rule Sally Brown say properly sense simply solecism Sometimes misused speak speakers speech Story subjunctive subjunctive mood superfluous synonym taste tence term thing thou thought tion truth usage verb vulgarism Webster's Dictionary woman word is sometimes York