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IF a man prefers long words to short, who shall blame him? If he thinks Greek compounds more suited to the style of a learned paper, let us not hurt his dignity by carping. But we have a right to ask that he shall use such words correctly. Therefore it may be urged without offence that the many who like to write the word “hypothecate” when they mean “suppose” should first look that word up in the dictionary.
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Hypothecate. Nature 115, 912 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115912d0
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