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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. ---------------------------------------- Andrew Burke Copywriting [log in to unmask] Creative Writing http://www.bam.com.au/andrew/ Editing ---------------------------------------- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%