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Title: HORRIBLE WORDS
A GUIDE TO THE MISUSE OF ENGLISH
By: Rebecca Gowers
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 014197897X
ISBN 13: 9780141978970
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Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 30 March, 2017
Pages: 224
Synopsis: 'Stuffed with entertaining detail ... Horrible Words is lively, provocative, witty and enlightening' The TimesNothing inflames the language purists like an illogical irregardless or a hideous otherization. But is it enough simply to dismiss these words as vile and barbarous howlers? Taking a genial tour far and wide through our linguistic badlands, Rebecca Gowers finds answers that are helpful, surprising and often extremely funny.'Exuberant, erudite, informative and fun ... a call on all English-speakers to trust their own feel for their language, to relish their verbal inventiveness and to do battle against the pedants who tell them they are wrong' Michael Skapinker, Financial Times 'A very useful book, packed with good historical sense' Lynne Truss, The Times
Publication: UK
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
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