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Horrible Words
A Guide to the Misuse of English
Häftad, 2017
137 kr
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'Stuffed with entertaining detail ... Horrible Words is lively, provocative, witty and enlightening' The TimesNothing 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 …
Plain Words
Av Rebecca Gowers, Ernest Gowers m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
137 kr
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'Be short, be simple, be human.'When Sir Ernest Gowers first wrote Plain Words, it was intended simply as a guide to the proper use of English for the Civil Service. Within a year, however, its humour, charm and authority had made it a bestseller. Since then it has never been out of print.Six …
Plain Words
Av Rebecca Gowers, Ernest Gowers
E-bok, 2014
108 kr
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'Be short, be simple, be human.'When Sir Ernest Gowers first wrote Plain Words, it was intended simply as a guide to the proper use of English for the Civil Service. Within a year, however, its humour, charm and authority had made it a bestseller. Since then it has never been out of print.Six …
The Scoundrel Harry Larkyns and his Pitiless Killing by the Photographer Eadweard Muybridge
Inbunden, 2019
250 kr
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For over a century, a mysterious figure from 1870s California, going by the name of Major Harry Larkyns, has been written off as little more than a liar, seducer and cheat. And he is only remembered at all these days because he was shot dead by the magnificently strange photographer Eadweard …
Scoundrel Harry Larkyns and his Pitiless Killing by the Photographer Eadweard Muybridge
Häftad, 2020
122 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWNDiamond thief, guerrilla fighter, spy, decorated hero, bohemian rogue and lover of several notorious women - all describe Major Harry Larkyns. Yet he has long been dismissed as merely a liar and a cheat, famous only for being shot dead in 1874 by the …
Scoundrel Harry Larkyns and his Pitiless Killing by the Photographer Eadweard Muybridge
E-bok, 2019
45 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN Diamond thief, guerrilla fighter, spy, decorated hero, bohemian rogue and lover of several notorious women - all describe Major Harry Larkyns. Yet he has long been dismissed as merely a liar and a cheat, famous only for being shot dead in 1874 by the …
Horrible Words
A Guide to the Misuse of English
E-bok, 2016
96 kr
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Nothing inflames the language gripers like a misplaced disinterested, an illogical irregardless, a hideous operationalisation. To purists these are 'howlers' and 'non-words', fit only for scorn. But in their rush to condemn such terms, are the naysayers missing something? In this provocative and …
