Some Misused Words.
AN IMPORTANT WORD of advice was omitted from the note to a correspondent who wished to acquire a command of words: —Get the dictionary habit. Frequent reference to a dictionary for the meaning of words will gradually build up a useful vocabulary from which crystal clear diction will flow. The reader may say that this is easy enough for a writer, who has leisure to revise, but not for a speaker. The remedy, then, is a mental rehearsal of everything that you have it in mind to say %o the next person you meet. Arrange and rearrange your sentences, bringing them down to the simplest terms, rejecting the long or unusual word, and noting the doubtful word for dictionary reference. TOUCiiSTQtfJfc.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 192, 14 August 1931, Page 8
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124Some Misused Words. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 192, 14 August 1931, Page 8
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