How to moisten your lenses
Article Abstract:
This weekly column on the correct usage of words and language focuses on the action whereby one moistens the lenses of glasses, or to "hurr", which differs from "huff". Both usages are clarified with examples.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
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When putsch comes to coup
Article Abstract:
The figures of speech, euphemisms, terminology and puns used to describe the events of the failed Soviet coup are presented
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 1991
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What to call the Russians
Article Abstract:
The language involved in renaming the USSR as the Commonwealth of Independent States is discussed.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 1992
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