Add to ORKGTravel writer and humorist Bryson has revised, adapted, and updated his style guide, first published in 1984 in Britain as Penguin Dictionary of Troublesome Words and in the US as Facts on File Dictionary of Troublesome Words, to appeal to contemporary American book buyers. Presenting itself as a compilation of suggestions, observations, and treasured prejudices, the work compiles and comments on commonly misspelled words and proper nouns and other conundrums of usage scrupulous writers or copy editors may face
Dictionary of Grammar, 1994, reprint 1995, 256 pp. ISBN 185471 702 2.London: Claremont Books. Price ...
The paper focuses on the onomasiological situation in monolingual dictionary consultation: When the ...
Compiling a dictionary of a very many words that are not in the dictionary - mine is a dictionary of...
This update to Bryson\u27s Penguin Dictionary for Writers and Editors (1991) lists and glosses selec...
Webster\u27s Dictionary defines colloquy as mutual discourse. Readers are encouraged to submit addit...
A worthwhile update to the first edition (2004), this volume combines a dictionary-style thesaurus w...
The following words are not in the dictionary, at least in the sense expected. The clues are how suc...
Recently two new word books showed up the same day in the new books at the library, both small-forma...
"A revised and enlarged edition of '10,000 words often mispronounced,' with a supplement of 2000 add...
In the July 22, 1990 issue of The New York Times Magazine. Bill Bryson guest-wrote the On Language...
This updated listing of words that are often confused by spell checkers is the most downloaded artic...
In the February 1974 Word Ways, Murray R. Pearce presented a most helpful corrective dissertation on...
This 124 page book, also known as Hurd\u27s Corrector, explains and corrects common errors in usag...
Samuel Johnson, compiler of the first dictionary of the English language, included in its his defini...
My friend Lois Fischer refers to a one-sided conversation as a unisation. Another friend once sugge...
Dictionary of Grammar, 1994, reprint 1995, 256 pp. ISBN 185471 702 2.London: Claremont Books. Price ...
The paper focuses on the onomasiological situation in monolingual dictionary consultation: When the ...
Compiling a dictionary of a very many words that are not in the dictionary - mine is a dictionary of...
This update to Bryson\u27s Penguin Dictionary for Writers and Editors (1991) lists and glosses selec...
Webster\u27s Dictionary defines colloquy as mutual discourse. Readers are encouraged to submit addit...
A worthwhile update to the first edition (2004), this volume combines a dictionary-style thesaurus w...
The following words are not in the dictionary, at least in the sense expected. The clues are how suc...
Recently two new word books showed up the same day in the new books at the library, both small-forma...
"A revised and enlarged edition of '10,000 words often mispronounced,' with a supplement of 2000 add...
In the July 22, 1990 issue of The New York Times Magazine. Bill Bryson guest-wrote the On Language...
This updated listing of words that are often confused by spell checkers is the most downloaded artic...
In the February 1974 Word Ways, Murray R. Pearce presented a most helpful corrective dissertation on...
This 124 page book, also known as Hurd\u27s Corrector, explains and corrects common errors in usag...
Samuel Johnson, compiler of the first dictionary of the English language, included in its his defini...
My friend Lois Fischer refers to a one-sided conversation as a unisation. Another friend once sugge...
Dictionary of Grammar, 1994, reprint 1995, 256 pp. ISBN 185471 702 2.London: Claremont Books. Price ...
The paper focuses on the onomasiological situation in monolingual dictionary consultation: When the ...
Compiling a dictionary of a very many words that are not in the dictionary - mine is a dictionary of...