| Description |
251 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- List of Key Concepts -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Key Concepts -- Bibliography or Further Reading (not sure if there is a Biblio in this book?) |
| Summary |
"What's an alibi, a bete noire, a celibate, a dilemma? Should underway be two words? Is the word meretricious worth using at all? How do you spell realise? With an s or a z? And should bete be bete? Should you split infinitives, end sentences with prepositions, start them with conjunctions? What about four-letter words, euphemisms, foreign words, Americanisms, cliches, slang, jargon? And does the Queen speak the Queen's English?" |
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"Quite Literally answers questions like these, and more. It's a guide to English usage for readers and writers, professional and amateur, established and aspiring, and for anyone who's ever been agitated about apostrophes or distressed by dangling modifiers. It concentrates on writing rather than speech. But the advice given on how to use words in writing can usually be applied to formal speech - what is carefully considered, broadcast, presented, scripted or prepared for delivery to a public audience - as opposed to informal, colloquial speech."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
English language -- Usage -- Dictionaries.
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English language -- Terms and phrases.
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| Genre/Form |
Terms and phrases.
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries.
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| LC no. |
2003026061 |
| ISBN |
0415320194 alkaline paper |
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0415320208 paperback alkaline paper |
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