Good Word Guide: Answers Everyday Language Problems

by Martin Manser (Author)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $5.70

  This fully-updated edition of the bestselling Good Word Guide offers information and advice on punctuation, pronunciation, spelling, grammar, usage and the latest buzzwords, and provides clear, straightforward answers to everyday language problems. Our language is changing faster than ever before, thanks to the influence of the media, computers, e-mail, the Internet and text messaging. Modern communications are breaking down the distinctions between formal and informal English, raising ever more questions as to how to speak and write correctly.

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  Paperback
  2007

  $3.28

  Our language is changing faster than ever before, thanks to the influence of the media, e-mail, the Internet and text messaging. Modern communications are breaking down distinctions between formal and informal English, raising ever more questions as to how to speak and write correctly. This fully updated edition of the bestselling Good Word Guide offers information and advice on spelling, grammar, punctuation, pronunciation, confusables and the latest buzzwords, and provides clear, straightforward answers to everyday language problems. With a foreword by Martin Cutts, Research Director, Plain Language Commission. 'In every sense, a good word guide' Times Educational Supplement 'This intelligent guide is an essential addition to the bookshelves of all readers and writers' Good Book Guide

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  Hardcover
  1997

  $3.28