Both Uses
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Politics and the English Language
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- Meanwhile, here are five specimens of the English language as it is now habitually written.†
*specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
- One could keep all of them and still write bad English, but one could not write the kind of stuff that I quoted in these five specimens at the beginning of this article.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(specimen) an example thought to represent its type; or a bit of tissue, blood, or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)