No Five-dollar Words, Please .
St. Petersburg Times - Google News Archive - Apr 9, 1983
But even when talking computers make it to the marketplace in . strength, users should be prepared to speak and use short words when conversing with ...
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THE PRICE OF GAS
$2.95 - Boston Globe - NewsBank - Aug 8, 2004
... the journal of the American Dialect Society, a writer alluded to "what not so many years ago were dubbed `five dollar words' by the irreverent. ...
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Go for the Five-Dollar Words
marketingprofs.com - Oct 10, 2007
We've all heard the same advice: Don't use a five-dollar word if a 50-cent one will do the job. The rationale for this adage is that "big" words ...
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Five-Dollar Words On A Five-Cent Subject
$2.95 - Fayetteville Observer - NewsBank - Aug 14, 1993
I was appalled and surprised to read the letter from Ralph E. Burns in the Aug. 5 Observer-Times. Here are three words of advice for Dr. Burns: Get a hobby! ...
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500 FIVE-DOLLAR WORDS ARE A BARGAIN AT $16.95
Pay-Per-View - Palm Beach Post - NewsBank - Mar 23, 2003
The enterprising folks at Levenger's have added a new volume to the occasional series of books published by Levenger Press. ...
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Advice Goddess: Vocabulary or fresh flowers?
$2.95 - Oakland Tribune, The - NewsBank - Sep 14, 2008
Q: The guy I'm dating is a high school graduate with a manual labor job. I have a master's and a corporate career, and I'll eventually make several times ...
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Hubble Bubble
Time Magazine - Time - Oct 21, 1940
Hubble Bubble. By last week, U. S. interest in the campaign had taken a noticeable trend away from the five-dollar words of high argument and seemed to be ...
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Charter school district getting mixed reviews
$2.95 - Sarasota Herald-Tribune - NewsBank - Oct 28, 1999
After a week of resentful vocal commentary about the speed and brusqueness with which the school district's pre-charter plan was drafted, presented and ...
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