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My teachers never seemed to like the use of certain Anglo-Saxon words like (as Lenny Bruce would say in his coy moments), "the short word for loving."
There was a constant effort in English classes when I went to school (at least in the schools I attended) to stress the elimination of short Anglo-Saxon words when there was another (longer) French derived word. In addition to awkward speech and writing patterns it also produced a gulf between writing for English classes and writing for Physics or History classes. I later adopted the AP Style Guide and the Chicago Manual of Style and have purged most of the high school English class material.
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