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530 Martin Amis RIP (with Mike Palindrome)

The History of Literature

CHAPTER

The Importance of Avoiding Infillicities of Sound

Amos Cowell used the Oxford English Dictionary almost constantly. He said it was to avoid accidental alliteration and repetition of prefixes and suffixes. "I think I learned a lot from reading him as, you know, in my own writing"

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