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Article: The New Fowler's Modern English Usage.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- February 10, 1997
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AS it happened, I read much of this book on an airplane (BrE "aeroplane") operated by Delta, whose uniformed representative welcomed me, among the other passengers, with the portentous announcement that she was Lisa and she would be my "customer service coordinator." As something of a collector of "genteelisms" and "euphemisms" (qqv), I at once sought under the appropriate entries to see if Mr. Burchfield, who is a lexicographer by trade, had caught this latest specimen, with the dew still moist upon its wings. He had not, quite, although he notes as an example under "euphemism" that the chief steward on an aircraft is sometimes called a "flight service director," which is ...
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