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100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses (Edition 001)
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List Price: $5.95
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 428.1
EAN: 9780618493333
ISBN: 0618493336
Label: Houghton Mifflin
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 2004-09-10
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Studio: Houghton Mifflin
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The 100 Words series continues to set the standard for measuring and improving vocabulary, with a new title focusing on words that are best known for getting people into linguistic trouble. 100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses is the perfect book for anyone seeking clear and sensible guidance on avoiding the recognized pitfalls of the English language.
Each word on the list is accompanied by a concise and authoritative usage note based on the renowned usage program of the American Heritage® Dictionaries. These notes discuss why a particular usage has been criticized and explain the rules and conventions that determine what's right, what's wrong, and what falls in between. Troublesome pairs such as affect / effect, blatant / flagrant, and disinterested / uninterested are disentangled, as are vexing sound-alikes such as discrete / discreet and principal / principle. Other notes tackle such classic irritants as hopefully, impact, and aggravate, as well as problematic words like peruse and presently.
A great graduation gift or stocking stuffer for anyone who cares about language, 100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses is guaranteed to help keep writers and speakers on the up-and-up!
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Summary: Fun to flip through
Comment: This is cute book that is fun to flip through and keep with your dictionary. It is essentially just a small dictionary and beyond definitions doesn't go into detail on entomology.
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Summary: Easy Encyclopedia of Misused Ordinary Words
Comment: "100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses" is meant for the closet lexicographer, or self-righteous vocabularies junkies like myself who love to watch TV and laugh at the errors of speakers. Naturally, we want to protect ourselves from the same fate, and here's where the editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries have helped us out.
100 words are here, from adverse to zoology. All will be familiar, but not all will be known. Troubling words, like 'discreet' and 'discrete,' are not only defined thoroughly, but clearly, with examples in common speech. Misuses are explained, and, before we become too smug, we discover words we too have confused.
Words like 'impeach' are included. In this case, it is not because there is a homonym, but because its definition has been misunderstood in popular language.
You will not invest either much time or money in this tiny treasure, but you might learn something. I have, and so then, I fully recommend "100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses."
Anthony Trendl
http://AnthonyTrendl.blogspot.com
Customer Rating:
Summary: I got 88 Words almost everyone confuses & misuses
Comment: Before mailing my book to me, someone took the liberty of making the book shorter by detaching a few pages from the spine. Oh well. It's a good toilet reader. If you already have a strong English background then you probably won't benefit much from what this has to offer. There were very few words I came across that I confuse or misuse; irregardless was one of them.
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Summary: I Didn't Like the Layout...
Comment: It was hard to find certain words, and related/confused words that should appear together in the book are pages apart. I did find quite a bit of the information helpful, but finding it is a pain. That pretty much rules out making this a handy 'go to' reference book...
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Summary: Words Some People Confuse
Comment: Not for advanced readers. This is pretty rudimentary stuff and is really for someone who doesn't read or write much. Price and format are both good. Might be a good gift for a high school student who is daunted by English courses.
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