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Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors

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Availability:In StockContributor:Bill BrysonPublish date:2009-05-12Pages:416
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780767922708ISBN-10:767922700UPC:9780767922708Book Category:Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Grammar & Punctuation, Linguistics, WritingBook Topic:Historical & ComparativeSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCB5G1S1D6
From one of America's most beloved and bestselling authors, a wonderfully useful and readable guide to the problems of the English language most commonly encountered by editors and writers.

What is the difference between "immanent" and "imminent"? What is the singular form of graffiti? What is the difference between "acute" and "chronic"? What is the former name of "Moldova"? What is the difference between a cardinal number and an ordinal number? One of the English language's most skilled writers answers these and many other questions and guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage. Covering spelling, capitalization, plurals, hyphens, abbreviations, and foreign names and phrases, Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors will be an indispensable companion for all who care enough about our language not to maul, misuse, or contort it.

This dictionary is an essential guide to the wonderfully disordered thing that is the English language. As Bill Bryson notes, it will provide you with "the answers to all those points of written usage that you kind of know or ought to know but can't quite remember."
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780767922708ISBN-10:767922700UPC:9780767922708Book Category:Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Grammar & Punctuation, Linguistics, WritingBook Topic:Historical & ComparativeSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCB5G1S1D6
BILL BRYSON's bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, In a Sunburned Country, Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words, A Short History of Nearly Everything (which earned him the 2004 Aventis Prize), and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. Bryson lives in England with his wife and children.
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group

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