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Writing Feature of the DayBrowse an article from Writing That Works, Concepts’print-only, paid subscription newsletter. We publish only first-run, original content targeted to the specific needs of publication professionals. APEX Grand Award Site of the Day
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FDU Magazine Online, Spring 2003Rebecca Maxon, Associate Director, Communications and Publications and FDU Magazine Online Web Designer, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ."Smooth as silk, this online magazine captures the essence of the print magazine and flawlessly translates it to the Web's idiom. Clean design, navigation, and legible layouts. Very effective Web copyediting." http://www.fdu.edu/newspubs/magazine/03sp/toc.html
Web site of the dayBROWSING FOR ETYMOLOGY ENTHUSIASTS --
You can read the origins of more than 300 words or phrases and essays about etymology, ask about odd words or phrases or contribute your own knowledge at http://www.wordorigins.org.
All the words on the list have an interesting history. For example, the entry on cut to the chase says, "This phrase meaning get to the point comes from the early days of Hollywood. Originally, it literally referred to a cut from a dramatic scene to an action one (the chase). The literal sense dates to J. P. McEvoy's 1927 novel Hollywood Girl, where it is given as a script direction."
But you knew that. Do you know from whence came the whole shebang? The site says, "A shebang, or chebang, is a hut or dwelling. It's of unknown origin and dates to the early 1860s. Mark Twain, in an 1869 letter to his publisher, is the first to use the phrase the whole chebang in its modern sense of the entirety. The transition from building (and everything in it) to the whole thing is a pretty natural one."
Other words to look up include bated breath, charley horse, face the music, muckety-muck, polka dot and raincheck. What we do Learn how Concepts' resources can help you improve your writing, editing and publications. | | |
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