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Across
  1. 4. a rhetorical device in which a speaker uses direct address to hail an abstract idea, absent person (living or dead), or a personification
  2. 7. when speakers omit consonants, vowels, or whole syllables from words
  3. 8. occurs when one part of speech functions as another and most commonly manifests as a verb used as a noun or a noun used as a verb
  4. 10. believe in the strength, structure, and sanity offered by standard English rules
Down
  1. 1. turn adjectives or verbs into nouns
  2. 2. inversion of word order
  3. 3. science of mishearing words
  4. 5. cuts through words to place other words in the middle
  5. 6. a standard, elided form
  6. 9. believe that unruly language is in its purest and loveliest form