Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words

One of the English language’s most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free grammar. As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where ‘cleave’ can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together; where the simple word ‘set’ has 126 different meanings as a verb, 58 as a noun, and 10 as a participial adjective; where if you can run fast you are moving swiftly, but if you are stuck fast you are not moving at all; [and] where ‘colonel,’ ‘freight,’ ‘once,’ and ‘ache’ are strikingly at odds with their spellings.” As a copy editor for the London Now, a decade and a half later, revised, updated, and thoroughly (but not overly) Americanized, it has become

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Product details

• Authors: Bill Bryson
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.09.2004
• EAN: 9780767910439
• ISBN: 978-0-7679-1043-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 205 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general)