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My keyboard lacks that "section" sign, but when I was a legal proofreader (my Bartleby phase) and we read documents aloud, the short form we used for that was "snake." Apparently that was burned into my brain to such an extent that, 25 years later, all I saw was "snake."
Commented Jan 12, 2013 on Word of the Week: Said-Bookism at Fritinancy
Word of the Week: Said-Bookism
Said-bookism: A verb used in place of “said” – almost always a needless distraction. From “said book,” a pamphlet of synonyms for “said.” Said-bookism is a subspecies of “the elegant variation,” the term coined by H.W. Fowler (1858–1933) to describe a substitution of one word for another for the...
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