Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words
A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right
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,'…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7679-1047-7
- EAN: 9780767910477
- Produktnummer: 15719334
- Verlag: Crown
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 637 KB
Über den Autor
Bill Bryson's bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and A Short History of Nearly Everything (which won the Aventis Prize in Britain and the Descartes Prize, the European Union's highest literary award). He was chancellor of Durham University, England's third oldest university, from 2005 to 2011, and is an honorary fellow of Britain's Royal Society.
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