Showing posts with label correspondents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label correspondents. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

correspondence, correspondents

Correspondence or correspondence means an exchange of letters or emails, or the letters themselves--
His firm plans to publish the correspondence of the famous author.
Their correspondence doesn't mention the sale of any property.

Correspondence also means agreement; similarity--
There seems to be little correspondence between what he says and what he does.
The correspondence between the two sets of data is obvious.

Correspondents or correspondents ( rhymes with correspondence ) is the plural ( more than one ) of "correspondent", meaning one party to an exchange of letters or mail, including a business partner or reporter--
The correspondents wrote to each other for decades, but they never met in person.
They are both foreign correspondents for a New York newspaper.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"The correspondents threatened to sue if the publisher printed their correspondence."