Word: properly
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Such proposals, which would be radical enough coming from a modern German theologian, are all the more so coming from canon lawyers, who by the nature of their profession tend to be conservatives. Although church officials from the beginning of Christianity found it necessary to draw up rules of proper ecclesiastical behavior, the first collection of such laws dates only from the Middle Ages. Inspired by the revival of study of Roman civil law, clerical scholars began to organize the various pronouncements of Popes and councils on ecclesiastical discipline over the centuries, deciding what rules were relevant. Canon...
Surefire Sidebars. In his harsh assessment, Marshall even suggests that some of his younger colleagues do not display a war reporter's proper enthusiasm for lengthy bouts of bloody and dangerous combat. Too many U.S. newsmen, Marshall complains, are like the TV crews who "want blood on the moon every night." They make brief searches for "tangents and sidebars." The offbeat yarns that attract them "fall into several familiar patterns, none of which promises a beat any longer, though collectively they are beaten to death. Any demonstration or riot is surefire copy. Then there is the thing-that-went...
...also responsible for keeping everyone in tune, determines the proper bowing for the strings, an all-important factor in correct phrasing. When the maestro wiggles a meaningful finger, the concertmaster responds accordingly and, in an instantaneous chain reaction, his lead is followed by each row of string players and ultimately by the entire orchestra...
...many wrong ways." Later on, after having stated that most verbs ending in -ize are "nearly all unnecessary and ill-formed," the text pops up with trivializing, signalize, actualize. It qualifies the absolute: fairly certain, virtual unanimity, quasi-universal. It insists that he betted on a horse is proper, speaks of cookery books, permits in case of fire but not in case of emergency. According to Follett-or the committee-margarine takes a hard g, and clothes, suggestion and chestnut should be pronounced cloes, sudjestion and chessnut...
...many books on proper English usage already exist-Strunk, Fowler, Jespersen, Evans, Mencken-that the appearance of yet another is a case of meeting an unfelt need. One dependable authority in this field, like one telephone company, should be enough, and the English-speaking world has had one since British Lexicographer Henry...