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“You can tell a paragraph is slipping out of control when there's a runaway use of the word 'hence.”

Writing Paragraphs Overuse Word Usage

Author:Alain de Botton

“Words should not be used merely because they are 'old' or obsolete. The words chosen, however remote they may be from colloquial speech or ephemeral suggestions, must be words that remain in literary use, especially in the use of verse, among educated people. (To such Beowulf was addressed, into whatever hands it may since have fallen.) They must need no gloss. The fact that a word was still used by Chaucer, or by Shakespeare, or even later, gives it no claim, if it has in our time perished from literary use.”

Writing Words Vocabulary Linguistics Translation Archaic English Word Usage

Book:The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays

Source: The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays

“Mature'? Good grief! I'm not a cheese. Or a herbaceous border.”

Aging Old Age Mature Word Usage

Book:How to Age Disgracefully

Source: How to Age Disgracefully

“The word 'church' in the Bible is a mistranslation of the Greek word 'ekklesia.' The accurate translation is 'assembly' or 'congregation.' Literally 'ekklesia' means the 'called out ones.' The common usage of this word during the apostles' time was for a called out assembly of people, such as a town square meeting, where citizens were 'called out' to attend.”

Citizens Congregation Ekklesia Word Usage Assembly Of God Called Out Ones Town Square

Book:ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House

Source: ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House