I would add one more aspect of Diane Ackerman's "One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing" to Abraham Verghese's eloquent review (April 17): Ackerman and her husband, Paul West, worked tirelessly and together to restore words to West because they ignored his doctors' conclusion that this task was impossible, since the stroke had irreversibly damaged his brain.
Typographical variation was addressed by string matching that ignores, for example, capitalization and hyphenation in spelling variants, and morphological variation by lemmatization, that is, restoring each word of an entity mention to its word root.
Americans dropped the "u" in these words under the influence of lexicographer Noah Webster, who argued that "to purify our orthography from corruptions and restore to words their genuine spelling, we ought to reject u from honor, favor, candor, error, and others of this class".
But we may want to restore some words that have lost their potency.
"As they say in New England, 'I vum' that this project should help restore these words and phrases to their former glory".
This article was amended on 24 November 2016 to restore the words "not one single", which had been lost during the editing process.
SAN FRANCISCO — A group of California county clerks has asked the state to delay a plan to restore the words "bride" and "groom" as an option on marriage licenses beginning next month.
Turning to the Littré dictionary of 1873, Greilsamer finds the word defined as "even more derogatory than canaille (scoundrel)" and observes that Sarkozy has at a single blow restored the word to its original meaning "The word racaille is dangerous, explosive and literally incendiary," he concludes.
Q: Who will restore the word Christian to its rightful meaning as "followers of Christ" and the word "religion" to mean inclusive love of the other?
In other words, restoring scattered noise, small-sized clusters, or thin lines of noisy pixels is easier than restoring clusters of larger size or thick lines.
