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CONTRADICTIONARY
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| By: |
Fritz Spiegl |
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Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
185626954X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781856269544 |
| Publisher: |
KYLE BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
2 September, 2010 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
Do you know the difference between acetic and ascetic, or between burgers and burghers, or between bucolic and alcoholic, or among complacent, complaisant and compliant, or among a cassock, a cossack, a hassock, a tussock, a hillock, a hummock and a pillock? This book showcases that difference. |
| Synopsis: |
Do you know the difference between acetic and ascetic? Burgers and burghers? Bucolic and alcoholic? Complacent, complaisant and compliant? A cassock, a Cossack, a hassock, a tussock, a hillock, a hummock and a pillock? If not, Fritz Spiegl's Contradictionary is the book for you. With entries varying from pithy brevity to mini essays, this quirky but well-informed textbook will be essential reading for anyone who has ever been caught using the wrong word in the wrong place (or been caught out being too clever by half). Readers, writers and students of media studies will find answers to frequently asked questions - and a number of questions it had never occurred to them to ask. Fritz Spiegl was a German who came to England as a child. In the intervening 60 years, he never lost his fascination with the eccentricities of the English language and the abuses to which it is often subject. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Kyle Cathie |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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