European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page in the stars stripes monday May 4.1987 columns today s crossword what s the word for killing time by James Kilpatrick a message is at hand from a gentlewoman in Oak Ridge Tenn. Prudence suggests that her name be withheld for she is looking Lor a particular word she May be thinking of pulling the word to us. What is the English word,1 she asks thai specifically Means he killing of a husband by his wife my correspondent was familiar with most such murderous terms homicide fratricide infanticide of course us Aricide. Which is the killing of a wife by her husband. She had combed he usual dictionaries in vain. In the course of history she mused an number of wives must have killed their husbands. Surely a word for such indignities must exist. An inquiry to Laurence Urdang brought an instant response. Urdang one of the world s Foremost lexicographers had the word at his fingertips. The word Ismari teide. In his comprehensive volume titled Plo Gin & isms Urdang lists a bundle of Homicidal varieties. Amid cide is the killing of one Friend by another Macro Icide is the killing of kangaroos Pat Richide is the lulling of one s father Matricides is the killing of one s Mother Soror Icide is the killing of one s Lister vat Icide is the killing of � Prophet. Under the heading of death while we re on the macabre subject Urdang Ollert other words to stretch a funereal vocabulary. Necro Latry is the worship of he dead Laph Ophilia ii an excessive interest in Graves cemeteries Ian Tomania is an obsession with death. On to sunnier themes Mark Hen chd of Chicago writes to complain of the persistent errors that Are made in writ ing about metric Majur Czienis. He regularly sees references in uie press to a "9-Rnm. Pistol or an a my. Cam Corder wrong the . Metric association says we should write of a "9 nun pistol no Hyphen no period Ellie associated press style Book uses "9mm." further he counsels us symbols Are properly written Only in the Singu Lar. It snot is pkg but rather j3s other pet peeves deserve a hearing. Hugh a. Scott of Portland ore., is irritated by what he terms the abominable neologisms of birthing parenting " what s wrong he asks with giving birth being a Parent he did t touch on nurturing which lately a been giving me a pain he also is irked by human resources by interpersonal what is the differ ence he inquires Between a relationship that is Persona land one that is interpersonal perhaps a sociologist could enlighten us. Dorothy Branson of Columbus Ohio is peeved Bynon Sequil such As if you like to spend your sunday afternoons walking through museums a new show opened at the metropolitan today if one does not like sundays in museums will the show not open if you prefer less caffeine most brands have most brands she observes will have specific Levels of caffeine whether she prefers in or not. Rudy Larini s Peeve slumps Rne. He objects to admitted to As in. The suspect admitted to assaulting the in Newsweek Magazine he read that a White House aide knew More about the Iran affair than he already has admitted i share his discomfort with the usage but there is something a Little off key in the suspect admitted assaulting the youth i m not wild about the suspect admitted that he had assaulted the youth in his second horrid example the problem can be cured by dropping the superfluous to to make in read More than he already has James w. Graham of Cleveland gets his adrenals pumping when he reads that someone has graduated from College or worse that someone has graduated to my correspondent s dismay the Ameri can heritage panel on usage condones both constructions. Such permissiveness he fears will Lead us eventually to he discharged the Correct form is Losa that someone was graduated from College for it is the College not the Grad uate that does the graduating. John m. Anspacher of Naples Fla growls at a head Tine in the Miami Herald Belgium businessman robbed in Motel the victim was no More a Belgium businessman than o visitor from France would be a France businessman. The adjective is belgian. Craft demands so very ii life in the Way of furniture. It is a Joy we share with people who play the flute they can set up shop anywhere. All thai a Woler really requires is an instrument to write with a surface of some sort to write on. We Are then in business. Bui if one is writing seriously other tools of the Trad come in Handy. The quellion Ollyn arises what tools let me suggest a few every writer needs a Good working dictionary of the English language. I use two of them constantly interchangeably Webster s ninth new collegiate like american heritage second College edition. Bolh Are excellent. Now then i double Check in the random House dictionary the Oxford american dictionary the Barnhart second dictionary of new English. For deeper digging you might want to invest i Webster s third International. It is descriptive unlike the prescriptive second but a solid work nonet. Eless. For still deeper digging if your taste runs to etymology you May wish to mortgage the farm go for the Oxford English dictionary its four recent supplements. Ai your Means Pernil you will want to enjoy uie luxury of specialized dictionaries. Most writers of my acquaintance keep a dictionary of quotations close at hand partly to provide adornment for their own stuff partly to provide a Check against Haw memory. Bait Lett s familiar quotations is the Standard work though i find the Oxford dictionary of quotations a Little Easi Erlo work with. . Mencken s new dictionary of quotations is arranged topically a great convenience to anyone who is assigned to speak or to write on a particular theme. Other dictionaries Are useful. The dictionary of Ameri can Slang edited by Harold Wentworth Stuart Berg Flexner is a reliable arbiter on usages of doubtful Lasic. A larger work heavy on British Slang is Eric Partridge dictionary of Slang unconventional usage. Eventually the mull volume dictionary of american regional English Wilt provide a comprehensive resource but thus far we have Only volume i covering a through c. Tsze Rheum gos by pcs if a Cost Shew . 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