Ricco di dettagli divertenti. Horrible Words è vivace, provocatorio, spiritoso e illuminante' The Times Niente infiamma i puristi della lingua come un illogico indifferente o un'orribile alterizzazione. Ma è sufficiente semplicemente liquidare queste parole come vili e barbari ululati? Intraprendendo un tour geniale in lungo e in largo attraverso le nostre terre desolate linguistiche, Rebecca Gowers trova risposte utili, sorprendenti e spesso estremamente divertenti.'Esuberante, erudito, informativo e divertente. Un invito a tutti gli anglofoni a fidarsi del proprio feeling per la lingua, ad assaporare la propria inventiva verbale e a combattere contro i pedanti che dicono loro che sbagliano' Michael Skapinker, Financial Times 'Un libro molto utile, pieno di buon senso storico' Lynne Truss, The Times.
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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.
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