Horrible Words

A Guide to the Misuse of English

Rebecca Gowers (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2017
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-197897-0 (ISBN)

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'Stuffed with entertaining detail ... Horrible Words is lively, provocative, witty and enlightening' The Times

Nothing 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

Rebecca Gowers is the author of The Swamp of Death, shortlisted for the CWA non-fiction Golden Dagger Award, and of two novels, When to Walk and The Twisted Heart, both longlisted for the Orange Prize. She is also the most recent editor of Plain Words, the classic guide to the use of English by her great-grandfather Sir Ernest Gowers.

Erscheinungsdatum	17.03.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	168 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Humor / Satire
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-14-197897-X / 014197897X
ISBN-13	978-0-14-197897-0 / 9780141978970
Zustand	Neuware