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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: Lexicon</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mark,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">

<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">You asked about the use of "utilize" versus "use". I am not sure why people use the former, and I am no one to talk because I plead guilty to using it occasionally myself.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">

<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">And I also plead guilty to having misspelled "riff-raff" as (canine-sounding ... ah ... I should say "doggish-sounding") "riff-ruff" </span><b style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">and</b><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> then having copied it to the "simplified" version. Ah, well ...</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">

<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Furthermore, I missed a commonly used Latinate word:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br>

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</p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Isn't it <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">just</span> that words that came
from Latin, French and Norman are thought of as more "learned,"
"<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">serious</span>"
or "high-<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">level</span>"
and are therefore often used and played with to make things <span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 255);">sound</span> "<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">classy</span>," "<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">scientific</span>," "<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">legal</span>" and overall
"better"?
<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">Compared</span> with them,
most Germanic-rooted words </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 255);">sound</span> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">"<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">simple</span>" and "everyday" to most
English speakers. This would make clear much of what you and I think of as needless
<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">use</span> of such words (that
are known as "Latinate").</span><span></span></p>


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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br>Seattle, USA</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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