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Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors

Author

Bill Bryson.

Publisher

Broadway

Format

hardcover

Product Dimensions

8.5 x 5.75 x 1.25 inches

ISBN

9780767922692

Pages/Publication Date

398/2008

Daedalus Item Code

02054

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Description

What is the difference between "immanent" and "imminent," or between "acute" and "chronic"? What is the singular form of "graffiti?" And what is the former name of "Moldova"? Here the author of the Aventis Prize–winning Short History of Nearly Everything answers these and many other questions in a useful and readable guide to language problems most commonly encountered by editors and writers. Delving into spelling, capitalization, plurals, hyphens, abbreviations, and foreign names and phrases, Bill Bryson illuminates the pitfalls in the wonderfully disordered thing that is the English language—"those points of written usage that you kind of know or ought to know but can't quite remember."

"One of the best guides to usage there is. I cannot imagine an English-speaking person [who] would not rejoice in [it]." —Boston Globe

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