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Usage and Abusage: How to Pick the Right Words and Avoid the Wrong Ones in Speech and Writing (American English Edition): A Guide to Good English

Usage and Abusage: How to Pick the Right Words and Avoid the Wrong Ones in Speech and Writing (American English Edition): A Guide to Good English

by Eric Partridge (Author)

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    Paperback 1997

    $26.80
Synopsis

Usage and Abusage is a classic that has stood up well to the passage of time. But language does evolve over the years, and new problems (such as the use of hopefully ) and current topics (such as sexism ) have engendered a whole new vocabulary, which cannot be omitted from any book discussing the English of the 1990s. In this new edition, Janet Whitcut has revised Partridge's popular reference book to reflect the language of well-informed writers, readers, and speakers today. In addition, she has added a section to the book entitled Vogue Words, which includes words such as crash symbiotic, and viable that have acquired a power and an influence beyond those that they originally possessed. Usage and Abusage wittily attacks linguistic abusage of all kinds and offers constructive advice on the proper use of English.

$26.80

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20+ in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 389
 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 17 Dec 1997
ISBN 10: 0393317099
ISBN 13: 9780393317091

Media Reviews
Will be appreciated by language lovers, students, and writers. . . . It now reflects the language changes of the '90s, while retaining succinct and witty essays by Partridge on such subjects as ambiguity, euphemisms, jargon, negation, and puns. . . . A gem of linguistic information.
Entertaining and informative.
Author Bio
The late Eric Partridge was the author of many classic books on the English language. Janet Whitcut has contributed to many publications including The International Encyclopedia of Lexicography and The Oxford Thesaurus.