The word 'splice' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb to refer to the act of joining two pieces of material together by intertwining them. For example, "He spliced the two pieces of rope together so that he could hang the hammock."
To splice this with tomorrow's cutting edge music seems like a dream, yet for a decade it's been happening on Manchester's doorstep.
In the end they've obviously got their reasons for picking those guys but I'm certainly a bit happier than facing a guy who's about six foot eight and bouncing balls up into your splice all the time, so I'm certainly not complaining".
Nebraska looks like a splice of that film (George Clooney family saga) and Payne's previous, Sideways (ill-fated vineyard holiday) – it's a father/son road trip with the booze-addled Dern driving from Montana to Nebraska with estranged offspring (Saturday Night Live regular Will Forte) on the trail of a million-dollar prize.
Now, after years of examining the language of airlines, politicians and (of course) journalists and of considering controversial points of grammar, like the split infinitive, the comma splice and singular they Johnson is becoming a column once again.
This is the increasing tendency of makers of IT hardware, operating systems and applications to move into each other's area of business, because their corporate customers no longer want to shop around for all these different bits and splice them together themselves.
The Church of England, whose canon law is intertwined with the law of the land and normally has a duty to marry people, will not, at its own request, splice same-sex couples, unless canon law and legislation are changed.That still leaves Strasbourg, which has cheerfully overlooked Parliament's declared wish and told Britain to let at least some convicted prisoners vote.
But to splice the virtues of small companies into the the genes of their gigantic new venture will take some wizardry.
With stutterers, he thinks, a specific group of brain cells involved in speech production is, for an unknown reason, uniquely sensitive to the enzymatic glitch perhaps producing the patterns seen by Dr De Nil in his brain scanners.To investigate further, Dr Drayna is now attempting to splice human stutter-causing genes into the DNA of mice.
Suzanne Livingston, the head of IBM's social-software operations, says that firms can even create new, jointly owned social networks or splice existing ones together to share know-how with outsiders.Some executives see another big benefit of networking.
(Maybe so; but there's a nasty splice comma up at the top of that sentence).Why, when other punctuation manuals are on the market (The Economist's style book is available at a very reasonable £16.99), is this one a bestseller?
* I can't resist noting that the distinguished linguist from Stanford here commits what I was taught is a comma splice, which I would never knowingly do myself.
