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<br><div><div>On Mar 12, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Scott R Campbell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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On 3/12/10 10:44 AM, "Lily Underwood Burns" <<a href="x-msg://119/lub@MIT.EDU">lub@MIT.EDU</a>> wrote:<br>
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On Mar 12, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Marilyn C Wilson wrote:<br>
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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. <br>
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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:<font color="#0000FF"><a href="http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=4227">http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=4227</a><br>
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<font size="1"><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:9pt">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,
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<font size="1"><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:9pt">Indeed, <b>utilize</b> can often be no more than a pretentious substitute for <b>use</b>, and this should be avoided. However, <b>utilize</b> 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 <b>use</b> fundamentally means.
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<font size="1"><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:9pt">When words such as these are used incorrectly, the people to whom you are speaking may think:
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<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><ul><li><font size="1"><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:9pt">you are ignorant of the definition of the word, so what else is wrong in what you are saying?
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Have a great weekend all!<br>
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