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		fecklessyouth on Sept 3, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Write by David Ogilvy Ironically, "circumlocution" is borrowed nearly exactly from its Romantic roots in Latin: circa (around) locum (place)

Evbn on Sept 4, 2012 [–]

Is there a Saxon alternative?

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