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7) The dictionary of disagreeable English: a curmudgeon's compendium of excruciatingly correct grammar
Author
Publisher
Writer's Digest Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"What's the difference between mazes and labyrinths? Proverbs and adages? Clementines and tangerines? Join author Eli Burnstein on a hairsplitter's odyssey into the world of the ultra-subtle with Dictionary of Fine Distinctions. Illustrated by New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck, this humorous dictionary takes a neurotic, brain-tickling plunge into the infinite (and infinitesimal) nuances that make up our world. The perfect gift for book lovers, word...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The most original and authoritative voice of today's English lexicography presents a fully revised new edition of his beloved usage dictionary. When Bryan Garner published the first edition of A Dictionary of Modern American Usage in 1999, the book quickly became one of the most influential style guides ever written for the English language. After four previous editions and over twenty years, our language has evolved in many ways, and the powerful...
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