The oil was an effective medicine for the white settlers.


Of course, not every typographical error should be ascribed to a hidden unconscious motive on the part of the typesetter (or typist).

Typesetters and typists never make typographical errors.


Upon further investigation of typographical errors, the unconscious motives of typesetters can be uncovered.


The official technical manual states that pulse-tone is the correct term in this case.


The technical verbiage for this is not pulse-tone.


The use of the term pulse-tone is confusing because it it technically incorrect.


Seen any shepherds on Broadway lately or even mentioned in The New York Times?


Broadway is too scared to make a show about shepherds.


One segment of the armed forces is the Construction Batallion, which was quickly abbreviated to C.B.

The Construction Batallion is an independent organization not associated with the armed forces.


The abbreviation of the Construction Batallion of the armed forces is C.B.


Skeat will not in this case ignore this note and repeat the offence at some future time.

Skeat is going to pay attention to the note.


Skeat isn't going to pay any attention to the note.


I can sympathize, therefore, with their rejection of the term Negro as a racist term.

I don't understand why they don't like the term Negro.


I understand why they don't like the word Negro.


Most other people agree that it is a racist term.


Mr. Nields replied, I'm perfectly happy to use the expression `lengthy statements.


Mr. Nields liked to use those words because they were historic.


Mr. Nields said he was happy to use those words.


For example, a program chairman prepared in longhand a few laudatory introductory remarks about a ..

A program chairman prepared some introductory remarks.


Nobody prepared any introductory remarks.


The introductory remarks were very long.


Deborah Cameron and Deborah Hills (`Listening in': negotiating relationships between listeners and presenters on radio phone-in programmes ) have studied the output of LBC Radio, London's all-talk station, which I have listened to with interest.

Deborah Cameron and Deborah Hills have inside information about what happens at LBC Radio, which I find very interesting.


I am interested in LBC Radio, London's all-talk radio station and its programmes.


I don't own a radio and have no interest in listening to radio programmes.


Such a composition would no doubt leave the impression that the string section had suddenly caught fire.

The impression given was that the fire started in the string section.


The string section was the only thing that remained after the fire, so obviously the fire started in another section.


In other words, what happens is something like the legerdemain of a magician's now-you-see-it-now-you-don't.


What happens is a huge surprise for the audience.


Scars of Venus A rash produced by secondary syphilis.

A rash is the first external sign of syphilis.


There is a rash that comes along with some STIs.


An advertisement in Rivington's New York Gazette on October 6, 1774, wanted a young man acquainted with keeping books in the Italian method, and another was from one who, wants a place.

The Gazette was the most popular newspaper in NY.


The Gazette was the news paper in Mexico.


The newspaper in NY was called the Gazette.


They sat at a computer terminals and would key in some kind of alphanumeric code that evoked many names.


They typed in numbers on the big grey keyboard.


Thus, dents are called nudgies , and major dents--the ones that require more than $500 to repair-- are owies .

They call the dents cute names to make the car owner feel better.


For one thing, a cliche can be defined as an imaginative expression which through repetition has lost its imaginativeness.

Cliches are a certain type of expression.


Besides the lexicon, grammar--especially syntax--has changed somewhat, too, though again not so much as to be incomprehensible to the average modern reader.


Grammar has changed so much that nobody can understand.


People who have trouble with grammar could certainly have trouble understanding.


I find nothing interesting, entertaining, or useful about any of the following, which are fairly typical of the


I find some of the things worth my time.


The only reference I have that mentions the strip at all ( The Penguin Book of Comics) is rather sketchy on detail.


Moreover, publishers are today generally less reluctant than before to make available to researchers the disks and tapes containing text.

Publishers are always happy to give tapes of their work out to anyone.


Publishers don't want to give researchers the tapes of the text because it might get released too early.


Publishers don't want to give researchers the tapes of the text.


Money has also derived its names from things or animals.


Hackers , or just plain droupies , probably have no trouble translating what I just wrote out of computer jargon and slang into more conventional English.

Hackers enjoy translating computer slang into normal English.


Hackers would not understand what I just wrote.


I think hackers can generally understand computer jargon.


But even though as a boy I lived on a ranch right on the Mexican border, I remember being mystified by ranching terms that crept into Western songs from north of us, cayuse, for example.


In fact there are well over one hundred syllothetic modifiers.


There are more than 100 syllothetic modifiers.


There are only 50 syllothetic modifiers.


'The e stands for the phoneme /e/, which in this word is pronounced like the e in ebb in all varieties of Yiddish.

Each Yiddish dialect pronounces the 'e' in this word differently.


The e in this word is pronounced the same in all varieties of Yiddish.


Section 8 discharge is ordered for this incorrigible company fxxxup.

A dishonorable discharge is ordered for that person.


That person is being discharged honorably.


The meaning could not be understood by any of us.


However, as Mr. Levitt's daughter pointed out, it is usually found as a stretchy tie used to bind things up, as a reefed mainsail on its boom, light articles to a luggage rack, etc.--Editor.


The subjective satisfactory , and ordinary word rather than a legal one, is a trouble-maker and should be avoided.

The subjective satisfactory is a person.


The subjective satisfactory is not trouble.


If Esperanto is aspiring to become a real language, then it must begin to behave like one and, before long, it will begin to suffer the same weaknesses that natural languages suffer--polysemy and pleurisemy.

Esperanto is spoken by less than one percent of the world's population.


Polysemy is one problem that natural languages have.


When I took my first office job in Switzerland, I had a secretary who knew no French or English, so that I had to write letters in these languages by hand for her to type.

Because my secretary spoke no English, I had to write the letters for her to type.


My secretary does not speak English or French, but I do.


When I took my first job, I could either read nor write in French.


The intricacies of the Gallic subjunctive do not worry him at all, and for the best reason in the he does not even bother to try.

He doesn't try because he has no motivation.


He is not worried because he doesn't try.


But he would indeed be feigning naavete to claim that generic man is now understood to include woman.


Women are included in the label of man now that feminism has progressed.


As Welsh's book has a list under PRONUNCIATION, I looked there, to no avail.

The list of pronunciation didn't help me at all.


The pronunciation list only included the most basic things.


In the same way, manual typewriters depend on the full force of the fingers to create words, rather than on electric (or electronic) assistance.

Typewriters require electric assistance to form words.


Typewriters require the user to push the buttons with adequate force to form the letters.


Typewriters required no electric components.


It seems silly to separate Gruyare the cheese from Gruyare the place in Switzerland whence it comes' indeed, the latter is not even an entry in the geographical sections of either dictionary.


Gruyare the cheese is nothing like the place.


You cannot separate Gruyare cheese from the place.


See that curious little beast over there?

Are you able to see that curious little beast?


Do you see that curious beast over there?


I derive enormous enjoyment from reading through back issues of such periodicals, a rather formidable prospect when you consider that each year makes up two volumes of about 400-odd pages each.


That Swede church isn't quite the same as That Swedish church.

One Swede church isn't the same as that Swedish church.


THe Swede Church and the Swedish church are the same.


The Swede Church and the Swedish church are pretty much different.


I was raised (Southern for being brought up by one's parents) where the train station, or depot, was the DEE-po.

I was born in Iceland and grew up there, where there are no trains.


In the South, train stations are referred to as the depot, and pronounced DEE-po.


There were miles of train tracks near my parent's home in the South.


No one seems to know if these sports are played on a court with a net, against a wall, or both.

There are variations of this sport that can involve a net and a ball.


Despite their reputation for distrusting polyglots, it is by no means unusual for Englishmen to be bilingual.

Lots of people from England speak more than one language.


No one in England can speak anything other than English.


People in England are required to speak more than one language.


Banquets and parquet mean the same thing.


The major Italian guidebook to Rome soberly claims that this building has been nicknamed Il Colosseo Quadrato , `The Square Colosseum.


The building is nicknamed Il Colossea Quadrato.


Caller says, Thank you for taking my call.


The caller was so glad someone was there to listen.


Its precursor was the now quite obsolete strangury (1398) `slow and painful urination.

A slow and painful urine stream was the precursor.


Only after the relevant strangury did urination become free and flowing.


Strangury preceded the sexually transmitted disease.


Via di Ripetta imperceptibly merges into Via della Scrofa `Street of the Sow,' named after another ancient sculpture that is still preserved there.


Via della Scrofa is named after another sculpture.


And rest easy, Miss Dalrymple, when I reedit speech scripts for print publication, I always revert to good old academically pure English usage.


Inglish differs from English in five words, expressions, grammar, pronunciation and rhythm.


Davidson should not adopt the pronunciation of scone to rhyme with `bone'--at any rate not because Victoria, where he lives, is veddy English.

Davidson does not believe scone and bone should rhyme.


Davidson shouldn't talk in a way where bone and scone sound the same.


It would be better if Davidson rhymed the words scone and bone.


The average novel of 200,000 words for $25 works out at 8,000 words per dollar.

A 200,000 word novel at $25 is a fair price.


A 200,000 word novel for $25 is 4,000 words per dollar.


A 200,000 word novel for $25 is 8,000 words per dollar.