Clichés: Avoid Them Like the Plague !

Informationen zum Autor Nigel Fountain is a writer, broadcaster and journalist who has written for many publications, including The Guardian (for which he was commissioning obituaries editor for many years), The Observer , The Sunday Times , The New Statesman , The Oldie , the London Evening Standard , the New York Soho Weekly News , History Today , New Society , Oz magazine and Time Out. His documentary work for Radio 4 and BBC2 has ranged from style magazines and the history of thrillers to dance halls and the events of 1968. His books include the award-winning WWII: The People's Story. Klappentext Cliches have become such a familiar part of the English language and people's everyday speech that many are now trite! meaningless and often quite irritating. This book looks at cliches in their many forms and shows where they came from and why they should be avoided. Zusammenfassung Clichés have become such a familiar part of the English language and people's everyday speech that many are now trite, meaningless and often quite irritating. This book looks at clichés in their many forms and shows where they came from and why they should be avoided.

Product details

• Authors: Nigel Fountain, Fountain Nigel
• Publisher: Michael O'mara Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.09.2012
• EAN: 9781843174868
• ISBN: 978-1-84317-486-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 192 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Humour, satire, satirical comedy; HUMOR / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Humour collections & anthologies, Humour collections and anthologies