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Download or read book Dictionary of Confusable Words written by Adrian Room and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation aims to remove the confusion between words that seem to be similar but whose meanings are different, such as abuse/misuse and accident/incident. Each example shows the word in its correct context - in a sentence, poem, statement or book.

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Download or read book The Hutchinson Pocket Dictionary of English Usage written by Helicon Publishing Ltd. Staff and published by . This book was released on 1999-08-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dictionary of Confusable Words written by Adrian Room and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adjacent or adjoining? Abuse or misuse? Consist, comprise, constitute, or compose? Guarantee or warranty? Pose, propose, or propound? Stationery or stationary? The Dictionary of Confusable Words aims to clear up the confusion in such cases. In more than 1,100 entries, the meaning of 3,000 individual words are given,the difference between them is explained, and an illustrative example showing the correct usage is provided. The book also includes specific examples to show past and present usage of words, and words occuring as the second or subsequent in a group are cross-referenced to ther head word in the appropriate alphabetical place. Editor Adrian Room has also included some familiar proper names that are sometimes confused, such as Liberia and Libya (countries), Monterey and Monterrey (towns), and Lloyds and Lloyd's (financial institutions). Classic or classical? Discreet or discrete? Continual or Continuous? Principle or Principal? Confused? Be confused no longer, with this handy book as your user-friendly guide.

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Download or read book The Hutchinson Pocket Dictionary of English Usage written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Hutchinson Concise Dictionary of Word Origins written by Adrian Room and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains entymologies of thousands of English words, with information on language of origin, and including recently coined words such as disco and slang such as yob. It should be of use to anyone interested in the history of words and how language is used.

Download or read book Hutchinson Dictionary of Difficult Words written by John Ayto and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1993 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating on the words which cause most difficulty for the average English user, this dictionary provides clear, concise definitions with the emphasis on problem points - spelling, pronunciation, disputed usage and confused meanings. And, for quiz buffs, a sprinkling of less-common words is included. This new edition, entirely revised and reset, and including over 1500 entries, covers such areas of language as spelling, pronunciation, usage and uncommon words.

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