Download or read book The Dictionary of Worthless Words written by Dave Dowling and published by Write on Course, LLC. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of Worthless Words recognizes that concise writing is paramount. This quick reference enables writers to conquer verbiage, delete pointless words and phrases, and elevate e-mails, essays, memoranda, personal letters, press releases, and speeches to a new level of clarity. The many examples of delete-worthy words will enable writers to avoid them in advance and prevent their prose from becoming clumsy and unclear.

Download or read book The Dictionary of Worthless Words written by Dave Dowling and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Dictionary of Worthless Words" recognizes that concise writing is paramount. This quick reference enables writers to conquer verbiage, delete pointless words and phrases, and elevate e-mails, essays, memoranda, personal letters, press releases, and speeches to a new level of clarity. The many examples of delete-worthy words will help writers avoid them in advance and prevent their prose from becoming clumsy and unclear.

Download or read book The Wrong Word Dictionary written by Dave Dowling and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The correct usage for more than 2,500 commonly misused words is provided in this concise and accessible handbook that assures, insures, and ensures that anyone who wants to communicate accurately and effectively chooses the right word every time. Arranged alphabetically in pairs (or threes when appropriate), entries are carefully cross-referenced and explained with a sentence, guaranteeing that readers find boycott, even when they look up embargo first. Two dozen accompanying cartoons humorously clarify confusing distinctions between words, making this a fun reference for all word lovers to enjoy.

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Download or read book The Dictionary of Popular Yiddish Words Phrases and Proverbs written by Fred Kogos and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating, useful, and funny collection of proverbs, curses, maxims, and ribald expressions will teach readers all they ever wanted to know about this remarkable language.

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Download or read book The Architects Guide to Writing written by Bill Schmalz and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are a lot of good books available to help people write better. They include dictionaries, usage guides, and various types of writers’ manuals – and professional writers ought to have many of those books on their bookshelves. But most architects and other design and construction professionals are not professional writers. Instead, they are people who spend a large part of their professional lives writing. That’s a big difference, and that’s where this book will help. The Architect’s Guide to Writing has been written not by an English major, but by Bill Schmalz, an architect who knows the kinds of documents his fellow professionals routinely have to write, and understands the kinds of technical mistakes they often make in their writing. This book is designed to meet the specific needs of design and construction professionals. It’s not going to waste their time with the things that most educated professionals know, but it will help them with the things they don’t know or are unsure of. It’s not a Chicago Manual-sized encyclopaedic reference that includes everything any writer would ever need to know, because architects don’t need to know everything. But what they do need to know – and what they use every day in their professional lives – has been assembled in this book.

Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals and Illustrated in Their Different Significations Together with a History of the Language and an English Grammar By Samuel Johnson Whith Numerous Corrections and with the Addition of Several Thousand Words by the Rev H J Todd In Four Volumes Vol 1 4 written by and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Dictionary Of The English Language In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals And Illustrated In Their Different Significations By Examples From The Best Writers Together With A History of the Language and an English Grammar written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language in which the Words are Explained in the Order of Their Natural Affinity Independent of Alphabetical Arrangement written by David Booth and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The University of Chicago Spanish English Dictionary Fifth Edition written by David A. Pharies and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Spanish-English, English-Spanish dictionary that contains thousands of terms including slang and provides guides to pronunciation, grammar, suffixes, and regular, irregular, and orthographic changing verbs. Covers International Spanish and American English.

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Download or read book The Truth About English Grammar written by Geoffrey K. Pullum and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you worry that your understanding of English grammar isn’t what it should be? It may not be your fault. For hundreds of years, vague and confused ideas about how to state the rules have been passed down from one generation to the next. The available books for the general reader – thousands of them, shamelessly plagiarizing each other – repeat the same misguided definitions and generalizations that appeared in the schoolbooks used by your great-great-grandparents. Geoffrey K. Pullum thinks you deserve better. In this book he breaks away from the tradition. Presupposing no prior knowledge or technical terms, he provides an informal introduction to the essential concepts underlying grammar and usage. With his foundation, you will be equipped to understand the classification of words, the structure of phrases and clauses, and why some supposed grammar rules are really just myths. Also covered are some of the key points about spelling, apostrophes, hyphens, capitalization, and punctuation. Illuminating, witty, and incisive, The Truth About English Grammar is a vital book for all who love writing, reading, and thinking about English.

Download or read book Dictionaries A Very Short Introduction written by Lynda Mugglestone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dictionaries are far more than works which list the words and meanings of a language. In this Very Short Introduction Lynda Mugglestone takes a look at how dictionaries are made, considering how they reflect the dominant social and cultural assumptions of the time in which they were written.

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