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Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.

Henry Watson Fowler

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Henry Watson Fowler
Age: 75 †
Born: 1858
Born: March 10
Died: 1933
Died: December 26
Journalist
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Linguist
Pedagogue
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Tonbridge
Kent
Single
Fetched
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Saxon
Long
Concrete
Abstract
Prefer
Romance
Familiar
Short

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