Finnegan - ya wldn't have a reference for "every cliche was once a good
lick" wld ya? I'd like to use it in my classes, alongside Orwell's cliches
are 'dying metaphors'.
In teaching I've been using a little ladder of the power of words in
language, first pinched off Glen Phillips of this list:
Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
Propositions, conjunctions, articles, pronouns, etc.
This list I give to students mainly for editing purposes: 'look at your
draft with this heirarchy in mind' I tell them.
Andrew B.
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