Marilyn Chandler McEntyre’s lecture, “Why Worry About Words?” (2004), states that the English language, when it comes to precision, has decreased its availability in both written and spoken language. McEntyre backs her claim with a fellow scholars’ argument by George Orwell (1946), who argues that the bad habits of the both the modern and written English language has overpowered the process of precision. McEntyre’s purpose is to express how the English language, whether spoken or written, can be negatively altered from precision in order to help enhance the availability of words by eliminating bad habits, and clearing the mind of unimportant thoughts that can degrade the quality of written and spoken English. Given the information used in the
