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<b>Date: </b>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:06:49 -0500<br>
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<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Editors] Utilize this!<br>
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Utlization-wise, this is impactful, even efficacious, information!!!<br>
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On Mar 12, 2010, at 12:03 PM, Scott R Campbell wrote:<br>
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I can't keep up with all this wit!<br>
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I can't orientate myself to the utilization of this lexicon.<br>
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On Mar 12, 2010, at 11:49 AM, Nicole M Malec wrote:<br>
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Yes, use-r friendly. ;)<br>
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On Mar 12, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Scott R Campbell wrote:<br>
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That would be utilizable information...<br>
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On 3/12/10 10:44 AM, "Lily Underwood Burns" <<a href="lub@MIT.EDU<x-msg://119/lub">lub@MIT.EDU<x-msg://119/lub</a>@MIT.EDU>> wrote:<br>
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Thank you so much - and thank you everyone for sending along such useful information!<br>
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Have a fantastic weekend,<br>
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On Mar 12, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Marilyn C Wilson wrote:<br>
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Dear Editors,<br>
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For your Friday morning mild amusement --<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:<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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“Use” vs. “Utilize”<br>
This entry is one in a series that tackles issues of proper word use and grammar in English.<br>
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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,<br>
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Indeed, utilize can often be no more than a pretentious substitute for use, and this should be avoided. However, utilize 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 use fundamentally means.<br>
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at Random House <<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19980828">http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19980828</a>> .<br>
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When words such as these are used incorrectly, the people to whom you are speaking may think:<br>
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* you are ignorant of the definition of the word, so what else is wrong in what you are saying?<br>
* you are using a pretentious “big word” to sound more sophisticated than you are<br>
* you are slipping into jargon and can’t explain something in simple terms<br>
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None of these reflect well on you as a speaker, a writer, or as a communicator in general.<br>
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Here’s some guidance:<br>
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* If you are about to say “utilize” but “use” would work just as well, then say “use.”<br>
* If you previously thought something was useless, but you got clever and now it isn’t, you are utilizing it.<br>
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Note that outside the United States, “utilize” will likely be spelled “utilise.”<br>
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Have a great weekend all!<br>
Marilyn<br>
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