[Lexicog] Re: Synonymy

[Rudolph C Troike]

I was interested in Greg Mellow's mention of 'big' and 'large'. Like Greg,
I would consider them synonyms, but in the past several years I've had
occasion to note the use of 'big' in papers by non-native English speaking
grad students, and have somewhat compulsively felt the need to change it
to 'large', as 'big' seems stylistically inappropriate for formal writing.

Rudy Troike
U of Arizona




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