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This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it one of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines">Wikipedia's policies or guidelines</a>, as it has not been <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus#Levels_of_consensus" title="Wikipedia:Consensus">thoroughly vetted by the community</a>. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints.</div></div></td><td class="mbox-imageright"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1252059228">.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxplain{float:right;margin:0 0 0 1em;border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);background-color:var(--background-color-base,#fff);padding:0.3em 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;text-align:center;font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxleft{float:left;margin:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutlist{display:inline-block;border-bottom:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);margin-bottom:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxplain ul{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutanchordiv{position:relative;top:-3em}.mw-parser-output li .module-shortcutanchordiv{float:right}.mw-parser-output .mbox-imageright .module-shortcutboxplain{padding:0.4em 1em 0.4em 1em;line-height:1.3;margin:0}</style><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:RESPECTIVELY"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:RESPECTIVELY&redirect=no">WP:RESPECTIVELY‎</a></span></li></ul></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The following article on "respectively" appeared in the original edition (1926) of <i><a href="/wiki/Modern_English_Usage" class="mw-redirect" title="Modern English Usage">Modern English Usage</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/H.W._Fowler" class="mw-redirect" title="H.W. Fowler">H.W. Fowler</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.15684/page/500/mode/2up?q=respectively">p. 500</a>. Its copyright has expired and it is now in the public domain. I couldn't put it better. The original was tightly formatted; I have reformatted it for legibility. --<a href="/wiki/User:Macrakis" title="User:Macrakis">Macrakis</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Macrakis" title="User talk:Macrakis">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Respectively#c-Macrakis-2021-02-01T00:17:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:17, 1 February 2021 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons" data-mw-thread-id="c-Macrakis-2021-02-01T00:17:00.000Z"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span><span data-mw-comment-end="c-Macrakis-2021-02-01T00:17:00.000Z"></span> </p> <hr/> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading1"><h1 id="Respectively" data-mw-thread-id="h-Respectively"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Respectively"></span>Respectively<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Respectively"></span></h1><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Respectively&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Respectively"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>respective(ly).</b> Delight in these words is a wide-spread but depraved taste ; like soldiers & policemen, they have work to do, but, when the work is not there, the less we see of them the better ; of ten sentences in which they occur, nine would be improved by their removal. The evil is considerable enough to justify an examination at some length ; examples may be sorted into six groups: </p> <ul><li>A, in which the words give information needed by sensible readers ;</li> <li>B, in which they give information that may be needed by fools ;</li> <li>C, in which they say again what is said elsewhere ;</li> <li>D, in which they say nothing intelligible ;</li> <li>E, in which they are used wrongly for some other word ; &</li> <li>F, in which they give a positively wrong sense.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="A._Right_Uses" data-mw-thread-id="h-A._Right_Uses-Respectively"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-A._Right_Uses-Respectively"></span>A. Right Uses<span class="anchor" id="right"></span><span data-mw-comment-end="h-A._Right_Uses-Respectively"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Respectively&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: A. Right Uses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>There are two other chapters in which Strauss & Debussy take respectively a higher & a lower place than popular opinion accords them.</i> </p> <dl><dd>But for <i>r.</i>, the reader might suppose that both composers were rated higher on some points & lower in others ; <i>r.</i> shows that higher goes with Strauss, & lower with Debussy.</dd></dl> <p><i>That training colleges for men & women respectively be provided on sites at Hammersmith & St Pancras.</i> </p> <dl><dd>But for <i>r.</i> he might take both colleges to be for both sexes ; <i>r.</i> shows that one is for men & the other for women.</dd></dl> <p><i>This makes it quite possible for the apparently contradictory messages received from Sofia & Constantinople respectively to be equally true.</i> </p> <dl><dd><i>R.</i> shows that the contradiction is not, e.g., between earlier & later news from the Near East, but between news from one & news from the other town.</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="B._Foolproof_Uses" data-mw-thread-id="h-B._Foolproof_Uses-Respectively"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-B._Foolproof_Uses-Respectively"></span>B. Foolproof Uses<span class="anchor" id="foolproof"></span><span data-mw-comment-end="h-B._Foolproof_Uses-Respectively"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Respectively&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: B. Foolproof Uses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The particular fool for whose benefit each <i>r.</i> is inserted will be defined in brackets. </p><p><i>Final statements are expected to be made today by Mr Bonar Law & M. Millerand in the House of Commons & the Chamber of Deputies respectively</i> </p> <dl><dd>(<i>r.</i> takes care of the reader who does not know which gentleman or which Parliament is British, or who may imagine both gentlemen talking in both Parliaments)</dd></dl> <p><i>The Socialist aim in forcing a debate was to compel the different groups to define their r. attitudes</i> </p> <dl><dd>(the reader who may expect a group to define another group's attitude)</dd></dl> <p><i>It is very far from certain that any of the names now canvassed in Wall Street will secure the nomination at the r. Republican & Democratic Conventions</i> </p> <dl><dd>(the reader who may think Republicans & Democrats hold several united conventions)</dd></dl> <p><i>We have not the smallest doubt that this is what will actually happen, & we may discuss the situation on the footing that the respective fates of these two Bills will be as predicted</i> </p> <dl><dd>(the reader who has read the prediction without sufficient attention to remember that it is double)</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="C._Tautological_Uses" data-mw-thread-id="h-C._Tautological_Uses-Respectively"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-C._Tautological_Uses-Respectively"></span>C. Tautological Uses<span class="anchor" id="tautological"></span><span data-mw-comment-end="h-C._Tautological_Uses-Respectively"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Respectively&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: C. Tautological Uses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After each is given in brackets the expression or the fact that makes <i>r.</i> superfluous. </p><p><i>Having collected the total amount, the collector disburses to each proper authority its r. quota</i> </p> <dl><dd>(each ... its)</dd></dl> <p><i>He wants the Secretary for War to tell the House in what countries they are at present stationed, & the numbers in each country respectively</i> </p> <dl><dd>(each)</dd></dl> <p><i>Madame Sarah Bernhardt & Mrs Bernard Beere respectively made enormous hits in 'As in a Looking Glass' </i> </p> <dl><dd>(<i>hits</i>, plural)</dd></dl> <p><i>The October number of the </i>Rassegna<i> is chiefly remarkable for the r. articles of the Marchese Crispolto Crispolti on Pope Benedict V & the War & by the Marchese Colonna di Cesarò on Zionism & the Entente</i> </p> <dl><dd>(the mention of each article immediately after its author's name)</dd></dl> <p><i>In the </i>Preussische Jahrbücher<i> for May the most noteworthy articles are those respectively by Werner Weisbach, who writes on Germany in modern Italian political criticism, & by Professor Hans Delbruck, who contributes an extremely interesting comparison between...</i> </p> <dl><dd>(as in the last).</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="D._Unintelligible_r." data-mw-thread-id="h-D._Unintelligible_r.-Respectively"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-D._Unintelligible_r.-Respectively"></span>D. Unintelligible <i>r.</i><span class="anchor" id="unintelligible"></span><span data-mw-comment-end="h-D._Unintelligible_r.-Respectively"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Respectively&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: D. Unintelligible r."><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>The writing-room, silence-room, & recreation-room, have respectively blue & red arm-chairs.</i> </p><p><i>A certain estate is for sale ; its grounds border three main roads, namely, Queen's, Belmont, & King's respectively.</i> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="E._r._for_Another_Word" data-mw-thread-id="h-E._r._for_Another_Word-Respectively"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-E._r._for_Another_Word-Respectively"></span>E. <i>r.</i> for Another Word<span class="anchor" id="another"></span><span data-mw-comment-end="h-E._r._for_Another_Word-Respectively"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Respectively&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: E. r. for Another Word"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The writers of these mean no more than <i>both</i> (to be placed in the second after <i>Fellow</i>). </p><p><i>The two nurses' associations respectively organized in Scotland make no secret of their membership.</i> </p><p><i>He was a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, & of the University of London respectively.</i> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="F._Reversal_of_Sense" data-mw-thread-id="h-F._Reversal_of_Sense-Respectively"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-F._Reversal_of_Sense-Respectively"></span>F. Reversal of Sense<span class="anchor" id="reversal"></span><span data-mw-comment-end="h-F._Reversal_of_Sense-Respectively"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Respectively&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: F. Reversal of Sense"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>It is recognized that far too little is known by Englishmen & Americans about their </i>r.<i> countries; in this country there is only one lectureship on American history, & that is at King's College, Strand.</i> </p> <dl><dd>This can only mean that Englishmen know too little of England, & Americans know too little of America—which is no doubt true, but is not the truth that the writer wished to convey ; 'about each other's countries' would have served both writer & reader.</dd></dl> <p>The simple fact is that <i>respective{ly)</i> are words seldom needed, but that pretentious writers drag them in at every opportunity for the air of thoroughness & precision they are supposed to give to a sentence. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="See_also" data-mw-thread-id="h-See_also-Respectively"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-See_also-Respectively"></span>See also<span data-mw-comment-end="h-See_also-Respectively"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Respectively&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:The_problem_with_elegant_variation" title="Wikipedia:The problem with elegant variation">Wikipedia:The problem with elegant variation</a>, discussing the redundant use of words like "eponymous"</li></ul>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Respectively&oldid=1227403103">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Respectively&oldid=1227403103</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Category</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_essays_about_style" title="Category:Wikipedia essays about style">Wikipedia essays about style</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 5 June 2024, at 14:30<span class="anonymous-show"> (UTC)</span>.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License</a>; additional terms may apply. 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