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Horrible Words : A Guide to the Misuse of English

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 014197897X
ISBN-13 9780141978970
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Mar 30th, 2017
Print length 224 Pages
Weight 174 grams
Dimensions 19.80 x 12.80 x 3.20 cms
Ksh 2,000.00
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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 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

''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


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