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Quite Literally: Problem Words and How to use Them This is a guide to English usage for readers and writers, professional and amateur, established and aspiring, formal trainees and those trying to break in; students of English, both language and liter
| Title | : | Quite Literally: Problem Words and How to use Them |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.88 (444 Votes) |
| Id Book | : | 0415320194 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 268 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2004-07-06 |
| Type File | : | PDF, DOC, RTF, ePub |
This is a guide to English usage for readers and writers, professional and amateur, established and aspiring, formal trainees and those trying to break in; students of English, both language and literature, and their teachers.In Quite Literally, Wynford Hicks answers questions like:
- 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 bête?
- Should you split infinitives, end sentences with prepositions, start them with conjunctions?
- What about four-letter words, euphemisms, foreign words, Americanizms, clichés, slang, jargon?
- And does the Queen speak the Queen's English?
Wynford Hicks is a freelance journalist and editorial trainer specialising in the use of English, subediting and writing styles. He is the author of the successful English for Journalists and Writing for Journalists and the joint author of Subediting for Journalists, all published by Routledge. He now lives in France.
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