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ChicagoS&n-Ttmes DICTIONARY OF USAGE Includes perceptive, witty comments on the state of the English language today from a distinguished panel of 166 writers, editors, news broadcasters, and other — language experts from Isaac Asimov and Jane Alexander to Barbara Tuchman and William Zinsser William and Mary Morris Internationally known authorities on language Authors ofthe Morns DictionaryofWordandPhrase Origins Second Edition * ""BUMflMOE D #17.95 mm- Harper Dictionary Contemporary of Usage Edited by William Morris The American Heritage Dictionary (Original Edition) Xerox-Ginn Intermediate Dictionary Weekly Reader-Ginn Beginning Dictionary Grolier Universal Encyclopedia Words: The New Dictionary By William Morris It's Easy to Increase Your Vocabulary Your Heritage ofWords By William and Mary Morris Dictionary ofWord and Phrase Origins, Volumes I, II, and III The Word Game Book Morris Dictionary ofWord and Phrase Origins Words, Wit and Wisdom (Japanese Edition) HARPER DICTIONARY OF CONTEMPORARY USAGE HE« ONI) I 1)1 1 ION William and Mary Morris with the assistance ofa panel of 166 distinguished consultants on usage larperPerennial <dM I ^^* :pcrCollins/W>//s/**rj TheForewordappearedinsomewhatdifferentformasanarticleinapublicationofthe Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design. John Ciardi's poem, "A Withstandee Withstands" was written for the occasion celebratingthefirstpublicationofthis Harper DictionaryofContemporary Usageand appears here with the permission ofthe author. HARPER DICTIONARY OF CONTEMPORARY USAGE {Second Edition). Copyright© 1985 by William Morrisand Mary Morris. All rights reserved. Printed in the United StatesofAmerica. No part ofthis book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of briefquotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information address HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York. NY 10022. Designer:Sidney Feinberg The LibraryofCongress hascatalogued the hardcoveredition ofthis book asfollows: Morris, William, 1913- Harperdictionary ofcontemporary usage. — 1. English language Terms and phrases. 2. English language—Errors ofusage—Dictionaries. I. Morris, Mary, 1913- . II. Harper& Row Publishers. III. Title IV. Title: Dictionary ofcontemporary usage. PE1680.M59 1985 423'.1 83-48797 ISBN 0-06-181606-X ISBN 0-06-272021-X (pbk.) 92 93 94 95 96 HC 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Ooclieation I WYfTAN Hi OH At m v who contributed to this work in its carls stages and *ho wrote "For a rxt. there is onls one political duts and that is to defend one's language from corruption And that is particular!) serious no* It is being corrupted When it's corrupted, " people lose faith in what thc> hear, and that leads |o violence And to Hi sjo I <>i is Mi m m v who in earlier scars, perhaps unwisels. encouraged us in the first of our lexicographical ventures, and who wrote "To the man with an car for verbal delicacies—to the man who searches painfull) for the perfect word and puts the svas of sasmg — a thing abose the thing being said there is in writing the constant " jos of sudden discoscr>. of happs accident I*tlIlC»l <>f CoilMllltfllitH Oil l'*Sii££C* Jsni \i i \\sdi k. winner ol man) film, television and stage awards SH vn\ At \ \ \ndi h. editor. wrr lumnist ( i I \ I i vm> \mokn. . writer David P "Davi " \m>i km>v sports columnist Am Hi sj \mis writer MmiMl J \kiiI.v staff writer agazmc [MAM \MM<)\ writer, lecturer. profCMOTofbiivhemistrs nivertit) . \> H \miis, pod Sheridan Baki mot, Uotankj ai Mid WMTNEI Bm I it I I. music. nagazmc I MOM \s S BsRHI K. writer .ind editor Jons () HvkHMi m feature write: i'ress M i ft vki Hi M H editor, writer a\h\ historian in hi \M f.-rmer Nx>k edit IcveUnd Plain Dialer S\i hi Om writer, winner ot"\orx\ literature and Pulitzer Prize Im I I . 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