| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
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| The noun diagnosis retains its foreign plural, diagnoses, pronounced dei-ig-NO-seez. It is “the process of identifying or describing an illness”; prognosis (plural: prognoses) is the prediction of the likely course the disease may take and of whether and how soon the patient may recover. Today Standard English makes increasing figurative use of both words. | 1 |
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| | | The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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