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Write It Right

Write It Right

Bierce, Ambrose

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Gifts & Stationery GeneralLetters & EssaysGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 1718763271
ISBN13: 9781718763272
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 10 2018
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.09 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Several hundred of Bierce's pet peeves. Bierce's list includes some distinctions still familiar today-the which-that rule, less vs. fewer, lie and lay - but it also abounds in now-forgotten shibboleths: Ovation, the critics of his time agreed, meant a Roman triumph, not a round of applause. Reliable was an ill-formed coinage, not for the discriminating. Donate was pretentious, jeopardize should be jeopard, demean meant comport oneself, not belittle. And Bierce made up a few peeves of his own for good measure. We should say a coating of paint, he instructed, not a coat.

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