Showing posts with label pros. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pros. Show all posts

Friday, June 7, 2013

prose, pros

Prose or prose means writing that is not in verse, or not poetry--
He is famous for his poetry, but his prose is even better.
There are two kinds of writing--prose and poetry.

Pros or pros ( rhymes with prose ) may be the plural ( more than one ) of "pro", short for professional--
He may play another year as an amateur before he joins the pros.
Pros may also be the plural of "pro", meaning for, or not against--
The pros outnumber the cons by six votes.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"The real writing pros can have 500 words of prose ready in less than an hour."

Note--"pro" is also a Latin word, meaning "for"--
The lawyer will take the case pro bono.