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.cauliflower.cause clbre.caveat emptor.(Lat.) Let the buyer beware. caviar.Cawley, Evonne Goolagong.(1951 ) Australian tennis star.Cayenne.Capital of French Guiana.CBC.Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.CBS.Columbia Broadcasting System.CCCP.Abbreviation in the Cyrillic alphabet of Soyuz SovyetskikhSotsialisticheskikh Respublik (Union of Soviet Socialist Re-publics), former USSR. Ceau_escu, Nicolae / centavo 63Ceau_escu, Nicolae.(1918 1989) President of Romania (1967 89);pronounced chow'-chess-coo.cedilla.Mark [,] placed under a c to indicate that it is pronouncedin French as an s, in Turkish as ch, and in Portuguese as sh.ceilidh.(Gaelic) A gathering for music and dancing; pronouncedkay'-lee.Cela, Camilo Jos.(1916 2002) Spanish novelist, awarded Nobel Prizefor Literature (1989).celebrant, celebrator.The first is the term for persons taking part inreligious ceremonies.Those who gather for purposes of revelryare celebrators.celibacy does not, as is generally supposed, indicate abstinence fromsexual relations.It means only to be unmarried, particularly if asa result of a religious vow.A married person cannot be celibate,but he may be chaste.Cellini, Benvenuto.(1500 1571) Italian sculptor, goldsmith, and au-thor.Celsius, centigrade.(Abbr.C.) Interchangeable terms referring to thescale of temperature invented by Anders Celsius (1701 1744), aSwedish astronomer.To convert Celsius to Fahrenheit, multiplythe Celsius temperature by 1.8 and add 32, or use the table in theAppendix.cement, concrete.The two are not interchangeable.Cement is a con-stituent of concrete, which also contains sand, gravel, and crushedrock.cemetery.Not -ary.Cenozoic era.The present geological era, beginning about 65 millionyears ago.In earlier periods it was sometimes also spelled Caeno-zoic or Cainozoic.centavo.A monetary unit in many countries of South and CentralAmerica equivalent to one one-hundredth of the country s mainunit of currency; pl.centavos. 64 center around / chafe, chaffcenter around.Center indicates a point, and a point cannot encircleanything.Make it center on or revolve around. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta.Federal institu-tion that deals with matters of public health.Note the pluralCenters.It is part of the U.S.Department of Health and Hu-man Services.centrifugal/centripetal force.Centrifugal force pulls away from; cen-tripetal force draws toward.Cephalonia.Greek island in the Ionian chain; in Greek, Kephallinia.Cerberus.In Greek mythology, a three-headed dog that stood guardover the gates to the underworld.Ceres.Roman goddess of grain, identified with the Greek goddessDemeter.CERN.Originally Conseil Europen pour la Recherche Nuclaire,now the Organisation Europenne pour la Recherche Nuclaire,the European Organization for Nuclear Research, based inGeneva, Switzerland.Cervantes, (Saavedra) Miguel de.(1547 1616) Spanish author.c est la guerre.(Fr.) That s the way of war. Cvennes.Mountains in southern France.Ceylon.Former name of Sri Lanka.Czanne, Paul.(1839 1906) French impressionist painter.cf.Confer.(Lat.) Compare ; used in cross-references.Chablais.Region of Haute-Savoie, France.Chablis.French village and white burgundy wine (also cap.).chacun son got.(Fr.) Each to his own taste. chacun pour soi.(Fr.) Everyone for himself. chador.Large piece of cloth worn by some Muslim women, which iswrapped around the body to leave only the face exposed; pl.chadors.chaebol.Korean business conglomerate; pl.same.chafe, chaff.To chafe means to make sore or worn by rubbing (or, chaffinch / Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 65figuratively, to annoy or irritate).To chaff means to tease good-naturedly.chaffinch.Type of bird.Chagall, Marc.(1889 1985) Russian-born French artist.chagrined.chaise-longue, pl.chaises-longues.Chakvetadze, Anna.(1987 ) Russian tennis player.Chaliapin, Feodor (Ivanovich).(1873 1938) Russian opera singer.challah (or chalah or hallah).Type of Jewish bread.Chalon-sur-Sane, Chlons-en-Champagne, Chalonnes-sur-Loire, France.Chamberlain, Sir (Joseph) Austen.(1863 1937) British politician,awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1925); son of Joseph Chamberlain(1836 1914), also a politician; half brother of (Arthur) NevilleChamberlain (1869 1940), British prime minister (1937 1940).Chamberlain, Wilt.(1936 1999) American basketball player.Chambers s Encyclopaedia.chameleon.chamois.The plural is also chamois, for both the antelope and thecloth for wiping cars.Champagne.Region of France, formally Champagne-Ardenne; thewine is champagne (no cap.).champaign.An open plain.Champaign, Illinois.Champaigne, Philippe de.(1602 1674) French painter.Champigny-sur-Marne.Suburb of Paris.Champlain, Samuel de.(1567 1635) Founder of Quebec.Champollion, Jean Franois.(1790 1832) French Egyptologist whohelped decipher the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone.Champs-lyses, Paris.Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.Post in the British Cabinet thathas no formal duties, enabling the holder to take up special as-signments for the prime minister. 66 Chancellorsville, battle of / Chteau-Lafite, Chteau-MargauxChancellorsville, battle of.Note -orsv-.Battle in the Civil War.Chandigarh.Indian city laid out by Le Corbusier.Chang Jiang (Pinyin)/Yangtze River.If you use the Pinyin spelling (asmany users now do) you should make at least passing referenceto the Yangtze, as that name is much more widely known in theEnglish-speaking world.Chanukah.Use Hanukkah.chaparral.Scrubby thicket of the American West.chapati/chapatti.Type of unleavened bread from India.chaperon.Chappaquiddick.Island off Martha s Vineyard, Massachusetts, madeinternationally famous in 1969 when Senator Edward Kennedydrove a car off a bridge following a party and his passenger,Mary Jo Kopechne, died.charg d affaires, pl.chargs d affaires.Charlemagne.Charles I (742 814), first Holy Roman Emperor (800814).Charlotte Amalie.Capital of U.S.Virgin Islands.Charlotte Douglas International Airport, North Carolina.Charlottenburg.Suburb of Berlin.Charollais cattle.chary.Doubtful, cautious; but chariness.Charybdis.In Greek mythology, a whirlpool off the coast of Sicily.Itis often paired metaphorically with Scylla, a six-headed monsterwho lived nearby.In this sense Charybdis and Scylla signify anyhighly unattractive and unavoidable dilemma.chastise.Not -ize.Chateaubriand, Francois-Ren, Vicomte de.(1768 1848) French states-man and writer.The steak dish named for him is usually notcapitalized.Chteaubriant, France.Chteau-Lafite, Chteau-Margaux.French red wines. Chatham House Rule / Chery 67Chatham House Rule, Not Rules.A rule of confidentiality formulatedin 1927 at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, or ChathamHouse, London.Under it information gathered at a meeting maybe used, but the source may not be disclosed.Chattahoochee River, Georgia and Alabama.Chattanooga, Tennessee.Chatto & Windus Ltd.British publisher.chauffeur.Chvez, Hugo.(1954 ) President of Venezuela (1999 ); full nameHugo Rafael Chvez Fras.Chayefsky, Paddy.(1923 1981) American playwright and screenwriter.cheap, cheep.The first means inexpensive; the second refers to thesound birds make.cheddar cheese, but Cheddar (cap.) for the place in England whenceit originated.Cheeryble brothers.Characters in Charles Dickens s Nicholas Nick-leby.Chelyabinsk, Siberia, Russia.Chemnitz, Germany; formerly Karl-Marx-Stadt.Chennai is the new official name for Madras, India, but until it isfully established both names should probably be used on firstreference.Chennault, Claire.(1890 1958) American general, organized FlyingTigers air corps in World War II.Chequers.Official country home of the British prime minister, nearPrinces Risborough, Buckinghamshire.Chernenko, Konstantin
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