Quite Literally: Problem Words and How to Use Them

The book details:

• Title: Quite Literally: Problem Words and How to Use Them.
• Author(s): Wynford Hicks.
• Publisher: Routledge.
• Language: British and American English.
•  Size: 1.63 Mb.
• Format: PDF.
•  Date: 2004 .
• Pages: 355.

 

This is a guide to English usage for readers and writers, professional and amateur, established and aspiring, formal trainees and those trying to break in; students of English, both language and literature, and their teachers.
In Quite Literally, Wynford Hicks answers questions like:

• What's an alibi, a bete noire, a celibate, a dilemma?
• Should underway be two words?
• Is the word 'meretricious' worth using at all?
• How do you spell realise - with an s or a z - and should bete be bête?
• Should you split infinitives, end sentences with prepositions, start them with conjunctions?
• What about four-letter words, euphemisms, foreign words, Americanizms, clichés, slang, jargon?
• And does the Queen speak the Queen's English?

The advice given can be applied to both formal speech - what is carefully considered, broadcast, presented, scripted or prepared for delivery to a public audience - and will even enhance your everyday languange too!
Practical and fun, whether to improve your writing for professional purposes or simply enjoy .
exploring the highways and byways of English usage, readers from all walks of life will find this book both invaluable and enjoyable.