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- Feb 2019
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Persuade
Here it is with a "u."
I'm beginning to think the contemporary insistence (can I say "fanaticism?") with spelling is just that: contemporary.
Perhaps another gift from Strunk and White.
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shortness
"omit needless words!"
A refrain of Strunk's. This Sprat fellow sounds like he would get along with Strunk and White.
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- May 2017
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Within a couple of decades Strunk was a full professor of English, and decided to privately publish a little book called The Elements of Style (1918).
Such a famous book! (For nerds!)
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