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Choosing the Right Word: Close Isn’t Good Enough
In his hilarious and withering lampoon of nineteenth-century novelist J. Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain famously observed that good writing requires the writer to “use the right word, not its second cousin.”ยน Twain was a master at using the right word, … Continue reading
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