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Right, Wrong, and Risky: A Dictionary of Today's American English Usage

Right, Wrong, and Risky: A Dictionary of Today's American English Usage

Davidson, Mark

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ISBN10: 0393061191
ISBN13: 9780393061192
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 570
Weight: 2.33
Height: 1.44 Width: 7.40 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
Right, Wrong, and Risky provides simple, direct answers to questions about word choice, spelling, grammar, and punctuation; in straightforward alphabetical order. The answers are supported by thousands of up-to-date published usage examples. And the reader is told not just that particular usages are right or wrong, but why. In addition, Right, Wrong, and Risky warns the reader about risky words like cleave and suspicious, and the many risky situations in which usage authorities disagree about what is and is not acceptable in Standard American English. For every such quandary, this book provides a risk-free solution. Browsers will learn why we tell stage performers to break a leg, why it's not really an insult to call someone a philistine or even a Neanderthal, and why it's wise never to use the word fortuitous or say the word forte aloud.

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