<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">So if I want to employ something, I will use "use" but if I want to promote it, I will utilize "utilize"...<div>Thanks!<br><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><b>-----------------</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">Cathryn M. Delude</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">Science Writer</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><a href="mailto:cmdelude@mit.edu">cmdelude@mit.edu</a></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Mar 12, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Marilyn C Wilson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; ">Dear Editors,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; ">For your Friday morning mild amusement --<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; ">I just had yet another annoying encounter with the word “utilize” which seems more and more commonly used in sentences where the word “use” is the better choice. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; ">So I went to the Internet to see if others share my reaction, and of course there is quite a bit written about it! In case you are interested, here’s one example, from the blog of a man named Bob Sutor:<a href="http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=4227" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=4227</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><b><span style="font-size: 16.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; ">“Use” vs. “Utilize”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><p align="center" style="margin-top: 7.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; "><em><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; ">This entry is one in a series that tackles issues of proper word use and grammar in English.</span></em><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="margin-top: 7.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; ">The incorrect yet increasingly common use of “utilize” instead of the simpler “use” is well documented in several places around the web. See, for example,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="margin-top: 7.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-position: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); ">Indeed,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">utilize</span></strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>can often be no more than a pretentious substitute for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">use</span></strong>, and this should be avoided. However,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">utilize</span></strong>does have its own meaning: ‘to turn to profitable use; to make a practical use for’. This is not the same sense as ‘to bring into service’, which is what<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">use</span></strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>fundamentally means.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="margin-top: 7.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; ">at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19980828" target="_blank" title="Go to article" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Random House</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="margin-top: 7.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; ">When words such as these are used incorrectly, the people to whom you are speaking may think:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">you are ignorant of the definition of the word, so what else is wrong in what you are saying?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">you are using a pretentious “big word” to sound more sophisticated than you are<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">you are slipping into jargon and can’t explain something in simple terms<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p align="center" style="margin-top: 7.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; ">None of these reflect well on you as a speaker, a writer, or as a communicator in general.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="margin-top: 7.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; ">Here’s some guidance:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">If you are about to say “utilize” but “use” would work just as well, then say “use.”<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">If you previously thought something was useless, but you got clever and now it isn’t, you are utilizing it.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p align="center" style="margin-top: 7.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; ">Note that outside the United States, “utilize” will likely be spelled “utilise.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; 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