At just two letters and one syllable, it lacks the pliable properties of longer words.
Sorkin is supposed to be on a different level from his peers: longer words, worldlier topics.
And when little Johnny's older he might master the longer words like repe'i'ive and compe'i'ive because he'll know no be'er.
He send back a waspish response calculated to out-patronise the senators and taking care to use longer words.
Both Word and OpenOffice Writer let you set up abbreviations that when typed expand into longer words or phrases.
In Japanese you can substitute polite forms of words, so that although kuu, taberu and meshiagaru all mean "eat" in Japanese, the longer words are more polite.
In English we can use longer words: "Would you like to consume nourishment?" instead of "Would you like to eat?" – but it doesn't sound polite, rather a bit awkward.
d) An anorexic transvestite and a carthorse in a binliner (© Vorderman). 5. When each of the following words is rearranged, one of them can be used to prefix the others to give three longer words.
Anyway, Mr. Donaldson offers us a 74-word grid, but he makes up for the lowish word count by inserting some nifty longer words into his puzzle, like MOVIE BUFF and BAD CASE.
Country had a leg-up on rival genres thanks to longer words like "tacklebox" and "Louisiana", according to author Andrew Powell-Morse, though he also argued that country's intelligence was in decline over the past 10 years.
Whenever she confronted an intimate problem, she tended to adopt the public manner of the lecture hall, and use longer and longer words, and make references to books that she thought everyone should have read.
