The Queen's English: Essential Companion to Written English

by HarryBlamires (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $4.21

  National standards of literacy are often criticized. This book examines the faults in today's usage of the English language. Papers, journals and magazines have been scanned for evidence. As a survey of literacy or illiteracy, it points to a controversy which has produced more noise than substance.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1994

  $17.82

  This is a survey of today's climate of literacy that homes in on the actual faults in current usage, cataloguing common errors and infelicities. The book contains examples of these from papers, journals and magazines. It also gives advice on how to attain linguistic accuracy. The book raises the question of whether an educational system can be expected to lift standards of literacy when the young are pitchforked into an adult world in which professional writers are careless of good usage.