"Are   you   beginning  to  dislike
slang,  then?  said  Rosamond, with
mild gravity.
"Only the wrong sort. All choice of
words is slang. It marks a class."
"There  is correct English: that is
not slang."
"I beg your pardon: correct English
is  the  slang  of  prigs who write
history and essays."
-- George Eliot, Middlemarch

There  are  nine  and sixty ways of
constructing      tribal      lays.
And-every-single-one-of-them-is-right!
--   Rudyard   Kipling,   "In   the
Neolithic Age"

I  would never use a long word when
a   short   one  would  answer  the
purpose.    I    know   there   are
professors   in  this  country  who
"ligate"  arteries.  Other surgeons
only  tie  them,  and  it stops the
bleeding just as well.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The  coordinating  conjunctions are
these:
and  but  for  nor
so   or   yet