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"""Preferred forms.
---
layout: post
source: Garner's Modern American Usage
source_url: http://bit.ly/1T4alrY
title: preferred forms
date: 2014-06-10 12:31:19
categories: writing
---
Points out preferred forms.
"""
from proselint.tools import memoize, preferred_forms_check
@memoize
def check(text):
"""Suggest the preferred forms."""
err = "garner.preferred_forms"
msg = "'{}' is the preferred form."
preferences = [
# Obsolete words
["imprimatur", ["imprimature"]],
# Proper nouns
["Halloween", ["haloween", "hallowe'en"]],
["Khrushchev", ["Khruschev", "Kruschev"]],
["Ku Klux Klan", ["Klu Klux Klan"]],
["Pontius Pilate", ["Pontius Pilot"]],
# Plurals
["hippopotamuses", ["hippopotami"]],
["manifestos", ["manifesti"]],
# ["matrixes", ["matrices"]],
["mongooses", ["mongeese"]],
["narcissi", ["narcissuses"]],
["retinas", ["retinae"]],
["sopranos", ["soprani"]],
["titmice", ["titmouses"]],
# Hyphenated words
["long-standing", ["longstanding"]],
["sans serif", ["sans-serif", "sanserif"]],
["tortfeasor", ["tort feasor", "tort-feasor"]],
["transship", ["tranship", "trans-ship"]],
["transshipped", ["transhipped", "trans-shipped"]],
["transshipping", ["transhipping", "trans-shipping"]],
["non sequitur", ["non-sequitur"]],
# Misc
["attitude", ["mental attitude"]],
["Chief Justice of the United States",
["Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court",
"Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States."]],
["chitterlings", ["chitlings", "chitlins"]],
["combustion engine", ["combustible engine"]],
["during / throughout", ["for the duration of"]],
["foreclose on", ["foreclose againt"]],
["friend in common", ["mutual friend"]],
["in regard to", ["in regards to"]],
["infectious", ["infectuous"]],
["inferable", ["inferrable", "inferrible"]],
["knowing that", ["in light of the fact that"]],
["lanyard", ["laniard"]],
["largess", ["largesse"]],
["lasagna", ["lasagne"]],
["leery", ["leary"]],
["lend me her", ["loan me her"]],
["lend me his", ["loan me his"]],
["lend me their", ["loan me their"]],
["lend me your", ["loan me your"]],
["lent me her", ["loaned me her"]],
["lent me his", ["loaned me his"]],
["lent me their", ["loaned me their"]],
["lent me your", ["loaned me your"]],
["linguist", ["linguistician"]],
["matzo-ball", ["matzoh-ball",
"matza-ball",
"matzah-ball",
"matsah-ball"]],
["mayoralty", ["mayorality"]],
["mealy-mouthed", ["mealymouthed"]],
["mean-spirited", ["meanspirited"]],
["midwifed", ["midwived"]],
["moniker", ["monicker"]],
["musical revue", ["musical review"]],
["mustache", ["moustache"]],
["nonplussed", ["nonplused"]],
["nonplussing", ["nonplusing"]],
["non sequitur", ["nonsequitur"]],
["not nearly as", ["nowhere near as"]],
["off", ["off of"]],
["podiatrist", ["chiropodist"]],
["podiatry", ["chiropody"]],
["shoo-in", ["shoe-in"]],
["suicide", ["suicide victim"]],
["the highway median", ["the highway medium"]],
["vaipidity", ["vapidness"]],
["weather vane", ["weather vein", "weather vain"]],
["with regard to", ["with regards to"]],
# Idioms
["a couple of people", ["a couple people"]],
["all the time", ["all of the time"]],
["as follows", ["as follow"]],
["bulk large", ["bulk largely"]],
["burying the lede", ["burying the lead"]],
["came to naught", ["came to nought"]],
["come off it", ["come off of it"]],
["corroborating evidence", ["corroborative evidence"]],
["dear departed", ["dearly departed"]],
["default on a loan", ["default to a loan"]],
["draw an inference", ["make an inference"]],
["in the meantime", ["in the meanwhile"]],
["long distances", ["lengthy distances"]],
["madding crowd", ["maddening crowd"]],
["Magna Carta", ["Magna Charta"]],
["marriage of convenience", ["mariage de convenance"]],
["Meanwhile,", ["Meantime,"]],
["Midwest", ["Middle West"]],
["Midwestern", ["Middle Western"]],
["modi operandi", ["modes of operandi"]],
["modus operandi", ["mode of operandi"]],
["motion seconded", ["notion seconded"]],
["mucous membranes", ["mucus membranes"]],
["must pass muster", ["must past muster"]],
["neck-and-neck", ["neck-in-neck"]],
["no-holds-barred", ["no-holes-barred"]],
["oil magnate", ["oil magnet"]],
["punch up the lede", ["punch up the lead"]],
["railroad magnate", ["railroad magnet"]],
["seconded the motion", ["seconded the notion"]],
["statute of limitationas", ["statute of limits"]],
["take precedence over", ["take prescience over"]],
["the last two", ["both of the last two"]],
["the last two", ["both of the last"]],
["unorganic food", ["inorganic food"]],
["vale of tears", ["veil of tears"]],
["Venus flytrap", ["Venus's flytrap", "Venus' flytrap"]],
["was accused of", ["was accused with"]],
# Verbosity
["try to", ["make an attempt to"]],
["try to", ["make attempts to"]],
["try to", ["make efforts to"]],
["tried to", ["made an attempt to"]],
["tried to", ["made attempts to"]],
["tried to", ["made efforts to"]],
["modern", ["modern-day"]],
# Grammar
["be misled", ["be mislead"]],
["was misled", ["was mislead"]],
["were misled", ["were mislead"]],
# Euphemisms
["a search-and-destroy mission", ["armed reconnaissance"]],
["abortion", ["pregnancy termination"]],
["bisexual", ["sexually ambidextrous"]],
["exterminator", ["extermination engineer"]],
["firing", ["permanent layoff"]],
["rat-catcher", ["rodent operative"]],
# Tenses
["mistook", ["mistaked"]],
# Accents
["né", ["ne"]],
["née", ["nee"]],
]
return preferred_forms_check(text, preferences, err, msg)
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