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I remember E. B. White cautioning against using “big words” when a more common one will do just fine.

The Elements of Style by Strunk & White, the best book ever written on literary composition.

 

4. Avoid fancy words. Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy, and the cute. Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able. Anglo-Saxon is a livelier tongue than Latin, so use Anglo-Saxon words. (Page 73)

 

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http://www.jlakes.org/ch/web/The-elements-of-style.pdf

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