Saturday, July 31, 2010

Floccinaucinihilipilification - English editing.

Floccinaucinihilipilification, supposedly meaning ‘the action or habit of estimating something as worthless’, is one of a number of very long words that occur very rarely in genuine use.
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Friday, July 30, 2010

Fleshy, Fleshly - English editing.

Fleshy relates to flesh in its physical sense and means primarily ‘plump, fat’ (e.g. fleshy hands, fleshy fruit) whereas fleshly relates to the more metaphorical sense of flesh, and means ‘carnal, sensual, sexual’, as in fleshly desires, fleshly thoughts. To use fleshly to mean ‘plump’ or ‘fat’ will generally be considered incorrect.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Flaunt - English editing.

Flaunt and flout may sound similar but they have different meanings. Flaunt means ‘to display ostentatiously’, as in visitors who liked to flaunt their wealth, while flout means ‘to openly disregard’, as in new recruits growing their hair and flouting convention. It is a common error, recorded since around the 1940s, to use flaunt when flout is intended, as in the young woman had been flaunting the rules and regulations.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Flaccid - English editing.

The pronunciations /flak-sid/ and /flass-id/ are both standard. /Flak-sid/ is the older and more traditional one and enjoys support on the grounds that is follows the rule for other words containing -cci- or -cce- (succinct, access, etc.) except those derived from Italian (cappuccino etc.).
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Fit - English editing.

For fit as a verb, the past tense and past participle in British English are fitted in all meanings: the dress fitted well; the dress fitted her well; we’ve fitted a new lock to the front door. In some parts of the US, fit can be used in the first two of these three meanings and is perfectly acceptable in US English: his head fit snugly into his collar; I tried on several jackets, but none fit me.
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Monday, July 26, 2010

Fish - English editing.

The normal plural of fish is fish: a shoal of fish; he caught two huge fish. The older form fishes are still used to refer to different kinds of fish: freshwater fishes of the British Isles.
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Saturday, July 24, 2010

Fetus - English editing.

The spelling foetus has no etymological basis but is recorded from the 16th century and until recently was the standard British spelling in both technical and non-technical use. In technical usage fetus is now the standard spelling throughout the English-speaking world, but foetus is still quite commonly found in British English outside technical contexts.
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