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[[Oral]] is a lesser adjective than [[verbal]], and all the less useful for it. When your circumstances seem to call for the {{tag|flannel}}-cut expression [[orally or in writing]], consider [[verbal]] instead.
[[Oral]] is a lesser adjective than [[verbal]], and all the less useful for it. When your circumstances seem to call for the {{tag|flannel}}-cut expression [[orally or in writing]], consider [[verbal]] instead.
===[[Amendment]]===
*See the recent, and somewhat stupid, case law on "[[no oral modification]]" clauses.


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Revision as of 10:45, 24 December 2018

From the mouth; therefore, of words: enunciated. Spoken. Uttered. Vocalised. Phonated. Rendered through the audible vibration of twin infoldings of membrane stretched horizontally across the larynx which modulate the expulsion of air from the lungs.

Oral is a lesser adjective than verbal, and all the less useful for it. When your circumstances seem to call for the flannel-cut expression orally or in writing, consider verbal instead.

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