Bryson•s Dictionary for Writers and Editors

More, Sir Thomas (also St. Thomas) / Mossad � 231
More, Sir Thomas (also St. Thomas). (1478–1535) English statesman
and author.
morganatic marriage. One between a noble and a commoner in
which the commoner and his or her descendants enjoy no privileges
of inheritance.
Morgan le Fay. Sister of King Arthur.
Morgenthau, Henry, Jr. (1891–1967) American statesman, secretary of
the treasury (1934–1945).
moribund does not mean sluggish or declining; it means dying, on
the point of death. To be moribund is to be critically, indeed irreversibly,
ill.
Morison, Samuel Eliot. (1887–1976) American historian.
Mormon Church. Officially the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints.
Morocco, Morrocan.
Morris, Gouverneur. (1752–1816) American statesman, signatory of
U.S. Constitution.
Morrison, Toni. (1931–) American novelist, awarded Nobel Prize in
Literature in 1993.
mortar, in the context of weaponry, is the launching device, not the
explosive projectiles. It is generally better, and sometimes necessary,
to write that troops fired mortar rounds (or bombs or
shells, etc.) rather than simply that they fired mortars.
Morte d’Arthur, Le. Not La. Fifteenth-century prose narrative by
Thomas Malory relating the legend of King Arthur.
mortise lock.
Moselle for the river and wine; in German, Mosel.
Moser-Pröll, Annemarie. (1953–) Austrian skier.
Moskva. Russian for Moscow.
Moslem is an accepted variant, but Muslim is generally preferred.
mosquitoes.
Mossad. Israeli secret service.