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الناشر | Ten Speed Press |
رقم الكتاب المعياري الدولي 13 | 9780399581274 |
رقم الكتاب المعياري الدولي 10 | 0399581278 |
تنسيق الكتاب | غلاف صلب |
اللغة | الإنجليزية |
العنوان الفرعي للكتاب | The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words And Their Tangled Histories |
وصف الكتاب | An entertaining and informative guide to the most common 150 words even smart people use incorrectly, along with pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and tangled histories of use and misuse. Even the most erudite among us use words like apocryphal, facetious, ironic, meteorite, moot, redundant, and unique incorrectly every day. Don't be one of them. Using examples of misuse from leading newspapers, prominent public figures and famous writers, among others, language gurus Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras explain how to avoid these perilous pitfalls in the English language. Each entry also includes short histories of how and why these mistake have happened, some of the (often surprisingly nasty) debates about which uses are (an |
تاريخ النشر | 23-Aug-2018 |
عدد الصفحات | 208 |
That Doesn'T Mean What You Think It Means Hardcover English by Ross Petras - 23-Aug-2018