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| 3 of the hyphenation table), as in worldwide (in the dictionary) but university-wide (not in the... dictionary). We’ll consider adding -wise to a future edition of CMOS; until then, we’d advise you to proceed analogy-wise.... |
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| ! Chicago style is 3-D (or three-dimensional), but other style guides and dictionaries are fine with 3D.... See, for instance, American Heritage Dictionary, which lists 3D first.... |
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| you for another opportunity to promote dictionaries as terrific resources for finding out the meanings... dictionary explains: “Farther and further have been used more or less interchangeably throughout... |
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| : Fowler, H. W. A Dictionary of Modern English Usage. 2nd ed. Revised and edited by Sir Ernest Gowers.... Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965. ———. Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage. 4th ed... |
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| common usage rather than good usage. The American Heritage Dictionary, which I understand is more...an adjective in at least one major dictionary is a good piece of evidence in favor of such a...preference. The OED provides more evidence in your favor. That dictionary includes the adjectival sense, but... |
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| , you can be fairly certain that there is no significant preference. But a dictionary will tell you...matter of the dictionary (or its Help page online) gives this explanation of how to read entries: When a... |
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| first printing of the 11th edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (2003, p. 507) included...entries for “fund-raiser” and “fund-raising”: The free dictionary at Merriam-Webster.com (the larger... |
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| understand the new meaning and begin to use it that way. In time, dictionaries record the new... dictionary, and your Japanese colleague would turn out to have her finger on the pulse of “natural” English.... |
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| hardcover edition of The Dictionary of Lost Words, by Pip Williams, and include the following footnote...: 1. Simon Winchester, praise for Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words (New York: Ballantine...might look like this: 2. Simon Winchester, praise for Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words, trade... |
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| Dictionary. A. That usage is fine. And isn’t Advanced an adjective made out of a verb? It’s good to be suspicious of rules that prohibit common usage.... |
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