Contradictionary: An A-z of Confusibles, Lookalikes and Soundalikes - Rilegato

Spiegl, Fritz

 
9781856269544: Contradictionary: An A-z of Confusibles, Lookalikes and Soundalikes
Rilegato
ISBN 10: 185626954X ISBN 13: 9781856269544
Casa editrice: Kyle Cathie Ltd, 2010

Sinossi

Do you know the difference between acetic and ascetic? Burgers and burghers? Bucolic and alcoholic? Complacent, complaisant and compliant? A cassock, a Cossack, a hassock, a tussock, a hillock, a hummock and a pillock? If not, Fritz Spiegl's Contradictionary is the book for you.

With entries varying from pithy brevity to mini essays, this quirky but well-informed textbook will be essential reading for anyone who has ever been caught using the wrong word in the wrong place (or been caught out being too clever by half). Readers, writers, and students of media studies will find answers to frequently asked questions-and a number of questions it had never occurred to them to ask. Fritz Spiegl was a German who came to England as a child. In the intervening 60 years, he never lost his fascination with the eccentricities of the English language and the abuses to which it is often subject.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Fritz Spiegl's many books include Keep Taking the Tabloids, a diatribe against the abuse of English commonly found in our popular press, two gravestone-shaped books A Small Book of Grave Humor and Dead Funny, InWords and OutWords, The Joy of Words, Mediawrite/Mediaspeak (the language of the press and broadcasting), and Music through the Looking-Glass (musical terms and professional jargon). He also produced Scouse International (the Liverpool dialect in five languages, including Japanese) to accompany four earlier volumes of Lern Yerself Scouse.

Dalla quarta di copertina

Do you know the difference between acetic and ascetic? Burgers and burghers? Bucolic and alcoholic? Complacent, complaisant and compliant? A cassock, a Cossack, a hassock, a tussock, a hillock, a hummock and a pillock? If not, Fritz Spiegl's Contradictionary is the book for you. With entries varying from pithy brevity to mini essays, this quirky but well-informed textbook will be essential reading for anyone who has ever been caught using the wrong word in the wrong place (or been caught out being too clever by half). Readers, writers and students of media studies will find answers to frequently asked questions - and a number of questions it had never occurred to them to ask. Fritz Spiegl was a German who came to England as a child. In the intervening 60 years, he never lost his fascination with the eccentricities of the English language and the abuses to which it is often subject.

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Editore
Kyle Cathie Ltd
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
185626954X
ISBN 13 
9781856269544
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
256
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9781856264846: Contradictionary: Of Confusibles, Lookalikes and Soundalikes

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  185626484X ISBN 13:  9781856264846
Casa editrice: Kyle Cathie Ltd, 2003
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