Locution

A “locution” (loh-KYOO-shun) – from the Latin for “to speak” – is a particular word, phrase, expression, or idiom.

Example (as used by Don Hauptman today): “Instead of ‘mutual friend,’ [another language authority] advises us to write and say ‘friend in common.’ But that locution strikes my ear as awkward and clunky.”

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