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wordcraft

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Skill with words; crafty or clever use of words or speech, rhetoric.

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He was almost outdone by his prime minister (and part-time poet), Dominique de Villepin, who came up with the declaration: "Globalisation is not an ideal, it cannot be our destiny .The contrast with the wordcraft of Mr Sarkozy is instructive.

I'm not suggesting this is the finest wordcraft on television, but it's refreshingly unpretentious, blunt and, yes, funny.

Two completely opposed narratives – the one being aired in the Bundestag on Friday, the other being peddled daily in Athens – are in circulation thanks to the wordcraft of the drafters of last Friday's deal extending the bailout.

Some fine wordcraft here.

Alex Frankel, author of "Wordcraft," on the art of naming brands, calls Vitaminwater an example of "the bottom-up approach to naming".

In that book, "Wordcraft: The Art of Turning Little Words into Big Business" (Crown), he also chronicles the origins of the names BlackBerry, Viagra and Porsche Cayenne, and explains how each has become accepted.

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