A Pun My Word

This entertaining and informative handbook deals with hundreds of difficult or misunderstood words-pairs and groups of words which are troublesome, misused, or abused. Drawing on a lifetime love affair with words, teacher, scholar, and professional communicator Robert Oliver Shipman explains their difficulty or confused use in clear, concise prose, identifies their parts of speech, defines their meanings, and illustrates their correct use through witty and humorous examples. A Pun My Word shows that words can be used with both the preciseness of a surgeon and the wittiness of a jester. A Writer's Digest Book Club Selection.

About the author

Robert Oliver Shipman

Summary

"...a superb guide to the intricacies of the language....provides clear distinctions between and among confusing words but does so in a light and often humorous manner. Such a book is especially useful to journalism students, and even practicing journalists." |s John C. Merrill, Professor Emeritus of Journalism, University of Missouri

Product details

• Authors: Robert Oliver Shipman, Shipman Robert Oliver
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.1991
• EAN: 9780822630111
• ISBN: 978-0-8226-3011-1
• No. of pages: 546
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 381 g
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; English, REFERENCE / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Reference works, Usage & grammar guides, Usage and grammar guides, Language teaching and learning, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Spelling & Vocabulary, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)