print email comment close Garbl's Writing Center: Long Words URL: http://home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/words.htm Description: A word substitution list. "Consider using these shorter, simpler alternatives to bureaucratic, overstated and pompous words. Note that several simple words may be clearer than a single long word." Also links to wordy phrases and redundancies, with more suggested substitutions. By a "writer, editor, media planner and communications specialist." Author: Larson, Gary B. Extra Keywords grwriting Library of Congress Subject Headings: Authorship English language -- Rhetoric English language -- Style LII Database Information: Record 4015 created by Martha Gifford on 10/30/2002 Last modification on 05/08/2006 Published: 10/30/2002   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/4015