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Book A Dictionary of Misunderstood  Misused  Mispronounced Words

Download or read book A Dictionary of Misunderstood Misused Mispronounced Words written by Laurence Urdang and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary of Misunderstood  Misused  and Mispronounced Words

Download or read book Dictionary of Misunderstood Misused and Mispronounced Words written by Laurence Urdang and published by Crown. This book was released on 1975-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New York Times Everyday Reader s Dictionary of Misunderstood  Mi U

Download or read book The New York Times Everyday Reader s Dictionary of Misunderstood Mi U written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations

Download or read book The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations written by Charles Harrington Elster and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive pronouncement on more than 1,500 of our most commonly mispronounced words. From the language maven Charles Harrington Elster comes an authoritative and unapologetically opinionated look at American speech. As Elster points out, there is no sewer in connoisseur, no dip in diphthong, and no pronoun in pronunciation. The culmination of twenty years of observation and study, The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations is more than just a pronunciation guide. Elster discusses past and present usage, alternatives, analogies, and tendencies and offers plenty of advice, none of it objective. Whether you are adamant or ambivalent about the spoken word, Elster arms you with the information you need to decide what is acceptable for you. The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations has now been expanded and revised and features nearly 200 new words, including: al-Qaeda bruschetta commensurate coup de grace curriculum vita exacerbate gigabyte hara-kiri machismo Muslim Niger Pinochet Pulitzer sorbet tinnitus w (as in www-dot) and many, many more. Charles Harrington Elster is the pronunciation editor of Black's Law Dictionary and the author of various books about language, including Verbal Advantage, There's a Word for It, and What in the Word? He has been a guest columnist on language for the Boston Globe and the New York Times Magazine and a commentator on NPR and hundreds of radio shows around the country.

Book The New York Times Book Review

Download or read book The New York Times Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Academic Writing as If Readers Matter

Download or read book Academic Writing as If Readers Matter written by Leonard Cassuto and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A short, punchy, prescriptive guide to academic style and writing well for scholars-from students to professors, and humanists to scientists-interested in or in need of becoming better writers"--

Book THE WORDS OF MEDICINE

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  • Author : Robert Fortuine
  • Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
  • Release : 2000-01-01
  • ISBN : 0398083134
  • Pages : 441 pages

Download or read book THE WORDS OF MEDICINE written by Robert Fortuine and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of the medical vocabulary presented in topical (rather than dictionary) form. While most other books on medical words are arranged as dictionaries, rather than topically, and are much more selective in their presentation, this book entertains a comprehensive and historical approach to the subject. It is written primarily for physicians, biomedical scientists, and medical students, but should also appeal to anyone in the health professions or biological sciences with a 'feel' for medical history and the English language. It will also be useful to some teachers of English or linguistics. The idea of the book developed over at least a decade, and brings together for the author a lifelong interest in words, classical and modern languages, and the history of medicine. The purpose is not only to foster the more precise use of the language of medicine by doctors and biomedical scientists, but also to enhance their enjoyment of the vocabulary they use professionally on a daily basis. Readers will find that the book contains a wealth of knowledge and provides for some very pleasurable reading.

Book Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits

Download or read book Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits written by Rod L. Evans Ph.D. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you been guilty of catachresis* at work? Have you defenestrated* your dictionary in frustration? Do you have phloem bundles* stuck in your diastema*? Scratching your occiput* now? Rod L. Evans's Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits will help take the mystery out of some of our most obscure words. Containing hundreds of words from agitron (the phenomenon of wiggly lines in comic strips indicating that something is shaking) to zarf (the holder for a paper cone coffee cup), this lively reference will enable you to easily locate your thingamajig or whatchamacallit, be it animal, vegetable, mineral, or punctuation mark. Leave no linguistic oddity unexamined-your brain will thank you. *catachresis: strained, paradoxical, or incorrect use of a word; *defenestrate: to throw out a window; *phloem bundles: stringy bits between the skin and the edible parts of a banana; *diastema: the gap between teeth in a jaw; *occiput: the back part of the head or skull

Book The Superior Person s Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words

Download or read book The Superior Person s Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words written by Peter Bowler and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1992 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Superior Person's Book of Words (over 100,000 hardcover copies in print). In the words of the author, The format and the objectives are the same as before. I wish to equip the person in the street with new and better verbal weapons. Features 600 words. 15 line illustrations.

Book The Elements of Expression

Download or read book The Elements of Expression written by Arthur Plotnik and published by Cleis Press. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a guide to writing and speaking expressively, offering advice on such topics as high energy verbs, figures of speech, syntax, word patterns, and vocabulary.