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Tips from 1870 | Usage: Articles interchanged. "An elephant is the emblem of Siam," should be, "The elephant is the emblem," etc. "A digraph is the union of two letters to represent one sound." Should be, "A digraph is a union," etc. CHAPTER XIV Redundancy We are all creatures of habit. Our sayings, as well as our doings, are largely a series of habits. In some instances we are unconscious of our peculiarities and find it almost impossible to shake them off. The following are verbatim expressions as they dropped from the lips of a young clergyman in the pulpit. They show a deeply-seated habit of repetition of thought. As he was a graduate of one of the first colleges in the land, we are the more surprised that the habit was not checked before he passed through his college and seminary courses. The expressions are here given as a caution to others to be on their guard: "Supremest and highest," "separate and sever us," "derision, sarcasm, and contempt," "disobedient and disloyal and sinful," "hold aloof from iniquity, from sin," "necessity of being reclaimed and brought back," "their beautiful and their elegant city," "so abandoned and given up to evil and iniquity," "soaked and stained with human gore and blood," "beautiful and resplendent," "hardened and solidified into stone and adamant," "this arctic splendor and brilliancy," "were being slaughtered and cut down," "in the rapidity and the swiftness of the train," "with all the mightiness and the splendor of his genius," "the force and the pressure it brings to bear," "has and possesses the power," "lights flashed and gleamed." The above were all taken from a single discourse. Another peculiarity of the same speaker was his use of the preposition between. Instead of saying, "Between him and his father there was a perfect understanding of the matter," he would say, "Between him and between his father there was a perfect understanding of the matter." Young writers will find it a valuable exercise to go through a letter, essay, or other composition which they have written, with the view of ascertaining how many words they can eliminate without diminishing the force of what has been written. An article or two from the daily paper, and an occasional page from some recent work of fiction will afford further opportunity for profitable practice in pruning. Source: Slips of Speech. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-e-e-g-h-i-i-l-n-n-r-r-s-t-t" | |
-5 letters: antiadrenergics. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 52 54 49 43 4C 45 53 49 4E 54 45 52 43 48 41 4E 47 45 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01010010 01010100 01001001 01000011 01001100 01000101 01010011 00100000 01001001 01001110 01010100 01000101 01010010 01000011 01001000 01000001 01001110 01000111 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A R T I C L E S   I N T E R C H A N G E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0052 0054 0049 0043 004C 0045 0053 0049 004E 0054 0045 0052 0043 0048 0041 004E 0047 0045 0044 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35525443374639532434854395237423548413938 |
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