It wasn't just wriggly children who were better replaced by, or at least supplemented, with a mannequin (the word is from the Dutch for "little man").
If they do, it's to the immediate detriment of all of us and they're thought of as stubborn, difficult people who might be better replaced by machines.
Usually, he said, the layer of bone that is removed from the skull is better replaced with an artificial one rather than the original.
His detailed programme for growing London's economy would have been better replaced with one sheet of paper with "This page intentionally left blank" written across it: well-intentioned governments tend to get in the way of wealth creation.
There is nothing wrong with Latinisms, even long ones, in themselves: this article is stuffed with words of Latin origin, and few of them would be better replaced by Anglo-Saxon equivalents.
Stuffed animals in a pile are called "stuffies" (actually, not bad), utensils are rather stiffly referred to as "cutlery," and the "sardines" pictured among the foodstuff would have been better replaced with "tuna" for American readers.
