Example sentences for: verbatim

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  • The essays treat usage from historical and contemporary perspectives, including material on the usage of classes of words (like pronouns of reference), specialized vocabulary, comparative treatment in dictionaries and usage reference books, visual style, and other topics that are likely to interest readers of VERBATIM.

  • VERBATIM ran an article, “Politically Correct Nomenclature, or, How to Win at Trivial Pursuit and Lose Friends” [XVIII, 4], by Marc A. Schindler, that delved into the subject, particularly with regard to the use of Inuit for Eskimo, though I note that the trade name, Eskimo Pie, has not been changed to Inuit Pie; also, it seems unlikely that the French ice cream confection, Esquimau Gervais, has been hailed into court.

  • Yet, when I read that a subscription to VERBATIM costs $10.

  • One might regard it as a popular combination of Carl Darling Buck's A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages (1949 and 1988) and A Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (1933), both University of Chicago Press, with something of Edward Pinkerton's Word for Word , Verbatim Books (1982), and my Suffixes and Word-Final Elements of English (1982) and Prefixes and Word-Initial Elements of English (1984), both Gale Research, thrown in.

  • Although this book was not reviewed in VERBATIM, encomiastic reviews of it have appeared internationally, and this is merely a notice to let readers know that it is available in paperback (albeit at a formidable price).


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