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**soubiri** · 10-09-2006, 08:11 PM

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When is it appropriate to capitalize 'university'?In British Engish we distinguish between formal titles and descriptive use. Here is the ruling in the Oxford Guide to Style (from the chapter on 'Capitalization and treatment of names'): Some words bear a distinction in capitalization according to their use in an abstract or specific sense ... Note the distinction between <placename w:st="on">Oxford</placename> <placetype w:st="on">University</placetype> and <placename w:st="on">Cambridge</placename> <placetype w:st="on">University</placetype> <city w:st="on">Oxford</city> and <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Cambridge</place></city> universities where universities is lower-case because it is descriptive rather than part of a formal name. So we write of university admissions/staff/students etc.

**soubiri** · 10-10-2006, 08:39 PM

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<h3 dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align="left">When you are quoting a phrase that is incorrect, do you follow that phrase or the incorrect word with (sic)? </h3>There is a helpful article on the use of sic in A Dictionary of Modern American Usage by Bryan A. Garner (OUP 1998). sic Sic (=thus, so), invariably bracketed and usually set in italics, is used to indicate that a preceding word or phrase in a quoted passage is reproduced as it appeared in the original passage. Sic at its best is intended to aid readers who might be confused about whether the quoter or the quoted writer is responsible for the spelling or grammatical anomaly. You should therefore position [sic] straight after the error to which it refers: if a misspelling, after the word concerned; otherwise after the phrase.

**soubiri** · 10-12-2006, 02:06 PM

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<h2 style="margin: 12pt 0cm 3pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left" align="center">Commonly Confused Words</h2>These are some of the pairs of words that are most often confused with each other.<h4 style="margin: 12pt 0cm 3pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left" align="left">DO NOT CONFUSE </h4>adoptive with adopted: children are adopted, but parents are adoptive.

**soubiri** · 10-13-2006, 03:22 PM

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**soubiri** · 10-16-2006, 12:18 PM

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<h4 style="margin: 12pt 0cm 3pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left" align="left">DO NOT CONFUSE</h4><h4 style="margin: 12pt 0cm 3pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left" align="left"> ambiguous with ambivalent: ambiguous primarily means 'having more than one meaning, open to different interpretations', while ambivalent means 'having mixed feelings'.</h4>

**soubiri** · 10-18-2006, 11:44 AM

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<h4 style="margin: 12pt 0cm 3pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left">DO NOT CONFUSE </h4><h4 style="margin: 12pt 0cm 3pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left">amoral with immoral: amoral means 'not concerned with morality', while immoral means 'not conforming to accepted standards of morality'.</h4>

**soubiri** · 10-19-2006, 12:28 PM

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<h4 style="margin: 12pt 0cm 3pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left" align="left">DO NOT CONFUSE <h4 align="left">appraise with apprise: appraise means 'assess', while apprise means 'inform'</h4></h4>

**soubiri** · 10-21-2006, 03:09 PM

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<h4 style="margin: 12pt 0cm 3pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left">DO NOT CONFUSE </h4><h4 style="margin: 12pt 0cm 3pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left">augur, 'be a sign of (a likely outcome)', with auger (a tool used for boring).</h4>

**soubiri** · 10-26-2006, 04:42 PM

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<h4 style="margin: 12pt 0cm 3pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left" align="left">DO NOT CONFUSE </h4><h4 align="left">censure with censor: censure means 'express strong disapproval of', whereas censor means 'suppress unacceptable parts of (a book, film, etc.)'.</h4>

**soubiri** · 10-31-2006, 06:02 PM

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**soubiri** · 11-03-2006, 03:15 PM

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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa">DO NOT CONFUSE complacent, 'smug and self-satisfied', with complaisant, which means 'willing to please'.

**soubiri** · 11-08-2006, 02:49 PM

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**soubiri** · 12-01-2006, 03:39 PM

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DO NOT CONFUSE

council, an administrative or advisory body, with counsel, advice or guidance.
councillor with counsellor: a councillor is a member of a council, whereas a counsellor is someone who gives guidance on personal or psychological problems.

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