"If 'chubber' is a word, use it in a sentence".
The word use and prose, I believe, could have improved, but I think that was overridden by the intriguing plot.
They challenge each other priggishly on word use and more aggressively on differing versions of their shared history.
Guns are used for many things and there are many meanings of the word "use" (more than 30 in the Oxford English Dictionary).
Often, their speech is heavily accented and their phrasing and word use are so eccentric that you must pay close attention in order to get their meaning.
A group of Swedish physicists, writing in The New Journal of Physics, contend that they can identify individual authors based on a unique "literary fingerprint" of word use.
But for this week, I'll shift from grammar to word use, with the latest in our file of sound-alike mix-ups.
The paper they produced, published in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology, has the beautiful title "Um … Who Like Says You Know: Filler Word Use as a Function of Age, Gender and Personality".
By Deirdre Foley Mendelssohn December 17, 2009 A group of Swedish physicists, writing in The New Journal of Physics, contend that they can identify individual authors based on a unique "literary fingerprint" of word use.
After all, for every artist making pretty pictures based on visualising sentiment and word use on Twitter, there's at least a hundred NSA/GCHQ analysts doing the same thing with much more bandwidth and some very sophisticated tools.
