| Jargon | Possible replacement |
| "good photon" or "good track" | Well define how photon/track is selected and use "candidate photon" or "candidate track" |
| "bin" | "interval" |
| "cut" | "Each event is required to satisfy R<0.3” |
| "event number" | "number of event" |
| "error" | "uncertainty" |
| "systematics" | "systematic uncertainties" |
| "so" | "therefore", "thus", "hence" |
| Poorly phrased expressions |
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| "the one" or "the ones" | "that" or "those" |
| "extract" | "determine" "measure" "calculate" |
| Common mistakes |
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| "dependency" | "dependence" |
| "log" | "ln" (unless you really mean the 10log) |
| "smaller than 5" | "less than 5" for continuous quantities, or "fewer than five" for an integer number of items. (Use smaller only for size.) |
| can't ; don't ; aren't | can not; do not; are not |
| "the smallest chi square" | "the least chi square" |