Bryson's Dictionary: For Writers and Editors

Informationen zum Autor Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. He is the author of eighteen books and holds the record of having the most bestsellers of any author on the Sunday Times bestseller list in the last fifty years. A Short History of Nearly Everything , first published in 2003, spent 106 weeks in the chart, won both the Aventis Prize and the Descartes Prize and is the biggest-selling popular science book of the twenty-first century. Bill Bryson is a former Chancellor of Durham University and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. He lives in England. Klappentext What is the difference between cant and jargon, or assume and presume? What is a fandango? How do you spell supersede? Is it hippy or hippie? These questions really matter to Bill Bryson, as they do to anyone who cares about the English language. An indispensable companion to all those who write, work with the written word, or who just enjoy getting things right, it gives rulings that are both authoritative and commonsense, all in Bryson's own inimitably goodhumoured way. Zusammenfassung Originally published as The Penguin Dictionary for Writers and Editors, Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors has now been completely revised and updated for the twenty-first century by Bill Bryson himself.

Product details

• Authors: Bill Bryson
• Publisher: BLACK SWAN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 23.04.2009
• EAN: 9780552773539
• ISBN: 978-0-552-77353-9
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Black Swan Paperbacks
• Subjects: Education and learning > Learning aids/university-entrance diploma theory > Reference works; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; Englisch : Wörterbücher: einsprachig