diction
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As the book’s introduction acknowledges, “Wired Style is anarchic, fluid, and rule-adverse, so beware: the digital dictions in this book may someday ache for updates and clarifications. Consider this Version 1.0.”
From Slate • Aug. 16, 2021
The characters’ distinctive dictions inflect not just their speech but their journal entries, book excerpts and letters that punctuate the plot.
From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2018
Best liked, hardest to locate were neutral dictions without noticeable peculiarities�what the investigators called "generalized American speech."
From Time Magazine Archive
One of his early obiter dictions: "Wot, wich, were, wen. weel, etc. are absolutely incorrect; but the alternatives hwat, hwich, hwere, hwen, and hweel are equally incorrect."
From Time Magazine Archive
Beachcomber Pampiniform it writhes, bladder-wrack or kelp, a heavy swell that slops about rustily in the basalt trough, breaking through the sea rush; & solitary goes Heaney, curling at dictions.
From Unmanned by Oliver, Stephen
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