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WoW: euphony

11/28/2016

Usage

This accounted not only for the habit of abbreviating whenever possible, but also for the almost exaggerated care that was taken to make every word easily pronounceable.
In Newspeak, euphony outweighed every consideration other than exactitude of meaning.

1984
George Orwell

Jack then went among the Vagabonds and, speaking in a none too euphonious stew of zargon, French, and sign language, soon got the information he needed.

Quicksilver
Neal Stephenson

The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold

A few minutes of gentle argument determined that Bergon dy Ibra-Chalion was no more euphonious than Bergon dy Chalion-Ibra, and that clause, too, was allowed to stand.

The Curse of Chalion
Lois McMaster Bujold

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WoW: dromedary

11/21/2016

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Usage

The Witches of Wenshar by Barbara Hambly

In the dust and heat haze, the shapes of horsemen and dromedaries were clearly visible, as were the white burnooses of the shirdar and the brightly dyed curtains of a swathed litter.

The Witches of Wenshar
Barbara Hambly

Having been long possessed of this idea, and bolsters being cheap in that country, the days have long gone by since it was possible to distinguish a woman from a dromedary.

"Mellonta Tauta"
Edgar Allen Poe

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WoW: creche

11/14/2016

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Usage

The office consisted of Dr. Russell, me, a chair for the doctor, a small table and two crèches. The crèches were shaped for human contours, and each had a curving transparent door that arched over the contoured area.

Old Man's War
John Scalzi

Part of every crèche is an artificial womb that takes care of a person the first eight or ten months after quickening.

The Forever War
Joe Haldeman

There is a commercial replicator crèche in Vormuir's District capital, which has been growing babies for the well-to-do for several years now.

A Civil Campaign
Lois McMaster Bujold

And though we were still raised in crèches like the others, we were raised in a crèche where ... a lot was demanded of us, intellectually.

Darkship Thieves
Sarah Hoyt

Nina interpreted the stories about the crèche fancifully, and in spite of our derision she cherished a belief that Christ was born in Bohemia a short time before the Shimerdas left that country.

My Antonia
Willa Sibert Cather

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