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Horrible Words: A Guide to the Misuse of English by Rebecca Gowers
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Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
Nothing inflames language purists like an illogical irregardless or a hideous otherization. To a purist these are "howlers" and "non-words," fit only for scorn. But in their rush to condemn such terms, are the nay-sayers missing something? This provocative and hugely entertaining book shows how the dikt ...Show more
Horrible Words: A Guide to the Misuse of English by Rebecca Gowers
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Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
Nothing inflames the language gripers like a misplaced disinterested, an illogical irregardless, a hideous operationalisation. To purists these are 'howlers' and 'non-words', fit only for scorn. But in their rush to condemn such terms, are the naysayers missing something? In this provocative and hugely ...Show more
Plain Words by Rebecca Gowers
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Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
"Be short, be simple, be human." When Sir Ernest Gowers first wrote Plain Words, it was intended simply as a guide to the proper use of English for the Civil Service. Within a year, however, its humour, charm and authority had made it a bestseller. Since then it has never been out of print. Six decades ...Show more
The Scoundrel Harry Larkyns and His Pitiless Killing by the Photographer Eadweard Muybridge by Rebecca Gowers
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Category: True Crime
The mysterious figure from 1870s California known as Major Harry Larkyns has long been written off as little more than a liar, seducer and cheat. In fact now he is only remembered at all because he was shot dead by the magnificently strange photographer Eadweard Muybridge. But has history correctly unde ...Show more
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