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Pith
and Patter
History
will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
— Winston Churchill
Language
informs and entertains. The best writing balances both
pith and patter.
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Pith |
Patter |
- serious
sense of heart, soul, and spirit
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- light
sound of heart, soul, and spirit
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- core
words driving at the central part
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- glib
speech dancing around the edges
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- meaning,
significance, sense, crucial or critical
point, essence, substance
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- talk,
chatter, lingo, parlance, locution, idiom,
conversational, colloquial
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"Pith"
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"Patter"Example |
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