Short Words “Short words” (stolen from the Economist Style Guide (021202) Use them. They are often Anglo-Saxon rather than Latin in origin. They are easy to spell and easy to understand. Thus prefer about to approximately, after to following, let to permit, but to however, use to utilise, make to manufacture, plant to facility, take…… Continue reading 02122002 – Short Words
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02252002 – New Words
From the original website a list of “new words”: New Words Defalcate Manias, Panics, and Crashes; a history of financial crises by Charles P. Kindleberger (Wiley: New York 2000) “Greed not only creates suckers to be swindled by professionals but also pushes some of the amateurs over the line into fraud, embezzlement, defalcation, and similar…… Continue reading 02252002 – New Words