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.Limassol, Cyprus.Limbourg, Limburg.The first is a province of Belgium; the second aprovince of the Netherlands.The cheese is Limburg or Lim-burger.limited means constrained, set within bounds.Unless there is the linage, lineage / Ljubljana 207ýÿidea of a limit being imposed, the word is better avoided.It isreasonable enough to say that a special offer is available for alimited time, but to write that there was a limited demand fortickets is absurd when what is meant is that fewer customersthan had been hoped showed up.linage, lineage.The first refers to lines of text; the second to ancestry.linchpin, but lynch law, lynch gang.Linnaean for the system of naming plants and animals by genus andspecies names (e.g., Homo sapiens).Some dictionaries also ac-cept Linnean as an alternative spelling.The term comes from theSwedish botanist Carl Linné (1707 1778), who chose to Latinizehis name as Carolus Linnaeus.For the rules of application con-cerning the Linnaean system, see genus, species.lion s share is a cliché.Why not say most or the larger part orwhatever is appropriate?Lipari Islands.Group of islands off Sicily, also known as the AeolianIslands.Lipchitz, Jacques.(1891 1973) French sculptor.Lippmann, Walter.(1889 1974) American journalist.liquefy, liquefaction.liqueur.lira.Currency of Turkey; pl.liras.It has not been the currency ofItaly since 2002, but for historical purposes it may be worth not-ing that the Italian plural was lire.lissome.literally means actually, not figuratively.If you don t wish to be takenliterally, don t use literally.literati.Literary elite; learned people.But littérateur for a person ofletters.Livni, Tzipora.(1958 ) Deputy prime minister of Israel (2006 ).Ljubicic, Ivan.(1979 ) Croatian tennis player.Ljubljana.Capital of Slovenia; pronounced loob-lee-yah'-na. 208 Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll-llantysiliogogogoch/Look Homeward, AngelLlanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll-llantysiliogogogoch.Village inWales, on the island of Anglesey, famous for having the longestname in Britain.Lloyd George, David.(1863 1945) (No hyphen.) British prime minis-ter (1916 22); but Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (hyphen) for his ti-tle as a peer.Lloyd Webber, Andrew.(1948 ) Now Lord Lloyd-Webber (hyphen),British composer of musicals; brother of Julian Lloyd Webber(1951 ), cellist.Lloyd s of London (apos.) for the venerable insurance exchange, butLloyds TSB (no apos.) for the British bank.Llullaillaco.Mountain on border of Argentina and Chile.loath, loathe.The first is an adjective meaning reluctant; the second,a verb meaning to despise.loathsome.LoBiondo, Frank.(1946 ) U.S.representative from New Jersey.local residents.Residents generally are local, so in most contexts thefirst word can be deleted.loc.cit., the abbreviation of loco citato (Lat.), means in the placecited. Locke, John.(1632 1704) English philosopher.lodestar, lodestone.These are the preferred spellings, but loadstar andloadstone are also accepted.Lódz, Poland; pronounced woodj.logarithm.Lomé.Capital of Togo.Longchamp, not -champs, for the French racecourse.Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.(1807 1882) American poet.Longleat House, Wiltshire, England.longueur.Note -ueu-.Boring interval or section of an entertainingwork.Look Homeward, Angel.Note comma.Novel by Thomas Wolfe (1929). Lord s Cricket Ground / luxuriant, luxurious 209ýÿLord s Cricket Ground, London.Lorenz, Konrad.(1903 1989) Austrian zoologist.losable.Los Alamitos Race Course, Los Angeles.Louis Roederer champagne.Louis Vuitton.French luxury goods company.Lourenço Marques.Former name of Maputo, capital of Mozam-bique.Louvain.French and English spelling of Belgian university townknown as Leuven in Flemish.louver.A type of slatted cover.Love s Labour s Lost.Comedy by Shakespeare.There may also havebeen a companion play, now lost, called Love s Labour s Won.LPG.Liquefied petroleum gas.luau.Hawaiian feast.lubricous is generally the preferred spelling for the word meaningslippery or lewd, but most dictionaries also accept lubricious.Luddite.A worker opposed to technological change.Ludwigshafen, Germany.Lufthansa.German national airline.Luftwaffe.German air force.luge.Type of sled.luminesce, luminescence.lumpenproletariat.Bottom of the working class.Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of.In French, Grand-Duché de Luxem-bourg; the capital is also Luxembourg (or Luxembourg City, forclarity).Luxemburg, Rosa.(1871 1919) Political activist.lux mundi.(Lat.) Light of the world. luxuriant, luxurious.The words are not interchangeable, though themeanings sometimes overlap.Luxuriant indicates profusion( luxuriant hair ).Luxurious means sumptuous and expensive 210 Lyly, John / Lysistrata( a luxurious house ).A luxuriant carpet is a shaggy one; a lux-urious carpet is an expensive one.Lyly, John.(c.1555 1606) English playwright.Lyonnaise, lyonnaise.The first is a region of France; the second is astyle of cooking.Lysistrata.Comedy by Aristophanes. MmMmMaas.Dutch name for the European river known in English as theMeuse.Ma at.Egyptian goddess of truth.Mac, Mc, M.In British usage all such words are treated as if theywere spelled Mac when determining alphabetical order.ThusMcGuire would precede Mason.In the United States, the alpha-betical order of the letters is followed literally, and Mason wouldprecede McGuire.macadam.A type of road surface, named after John McAdam(1756 1836), a Scottish engineer.macaque.Monkey of the genus Macaca.macaronic verse.A type of poetry in which two or more languagesare mingled.MacArthur, Charles.(1895 1956) American playwright and screen-writer, and father of James MacArthur (1937 ), actor.MacArthur, Douglas.(1880 1964) American general.MacArthur Foundation, John D.and Catherine T.U.S.charity famous forgenerous awards.Macaulay, Baron Thomas Babington.(1800 1859) British historian.Maccabees.Jewish dynasty of second and first centuries bc.Macdonald, Dwight.(1906 1982) American writer and critic.Macdonald, Sir John Alexander.(1815 1891) Canadian prime minister(1867 1873, 1878 1891).MacDonald, Ramsay.(1866 1938) British prime minister (1924,1929 1935). 212 Macdonald, Ross / MacNeice, (Frederick) LouisMacdonald, Ross.Pen name of Kenneth Millar (1915 1983), Canadian-American author of detective fiction.Macdonnell Ranges, Northern Territory, Australia.Macgillicuddy s Reeks.Mountain range in County Kerry, Ireland.MacGraw, Ali.(1938 ) American actress.MacGregor.Scottish clan.Machiavelli, Niccolò di Bernardo dei.(1469 1527) Florentine statesmanand political theorist, best known for Il Principe (The Prince),1513.machicolation.Gallery at the top of a castle tower.Mach number.(Cap.M.) The ratio of the speed of an object to thespeed of sound in the medium (usually air) through which theobject is traveling: e.g., an aircraft traveling at twice the speed ofsound is said to be going at Mach 2.Named after Ernst Mach(1836 1916), an Austrian physicist.Macintosh for the computer made by Apple, but McIntosh for theapple.Mackenzie, river and mountains in western Canada, but McKenziefor the lake and bay in Ontario and the pass in Oregon.Mackinac Island and Straits of Mackinac, in Lake Huron, but MackinawCity, Michigan.The type of woolen coat is called a mackinaw, butMackinaw blanket and Mackinaw boat are both capitalized.Forall spellings, the pronunciation is mack-in-aw.MacLaine, Shirley.(1934 ) American actress; born Shirley MacLeanBeaty.MacLean, Alistair.(1922 1987) British writer of adventure novels.Maclean s.Canadian weekly newsmagazine.MacLehose & Sons.Scottish printers.MacLeish, Archibald.(1892 1982) American poet.Macleod, Lake, Western Australia.MacMurray, Fred.(1907 1991) American actor.MacNeice, (Frederick) Louis.(1907 1963) Irish-born British poet. 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