But there's another virtue to a dictionary, online or otherwise: guidance in the finer points of usage.
The book has two parts: in the first, Pinker identifies the techniques that make prose compelling and the bad habits that can make it soggy, and in the second he focuses on contentious points of usage, of the sort addressed by the American humorist Calvin Trillin's quip: "'Whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler".
On average, participants increased their use of the problem list from 22% of visits to 24% of visits, a 2 percentage points of usage.
Training participants also increased their use of the medication list 4 percentage points of usage, from 41% of visits to 45% of visits.
I used to be a stickler for this point of usage, always changing "alternate route" to "alternative route," although the shorter version is more often seen on road signs ("USE ALTERNATE ROUTE").
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Given the native spelling, and your newspaper's inclination to follow British practice, might I suggest that "arsehole" would have been a better and, to these ears, more euphonious rendering? Inexplicably, your style guide is silent on this particular point of usage.Jakob WhitfieldLondon.
Quine, however, sees this as simply a point of usage, with no particular philosophical implications.
Given that stents can be considered specialised almost custom fit medical items, a direct delivery to the point of usage was considered smoother.
However, any substantial exploitation of the renewable source will depend on being able to transmit the energy from its source to its final point of usage, in this case, an urban center [25].
So now drones join ocean freighters, jetliners, trucks, cars, bicycles, stores and people in Amazon's arsenal of delivery, giving them control of air, land, sea and point of origin to point of usage.
