Who's Whose?: A No-nonsense Guide to Easily Confused Words? - Softcover

Gooden, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0713676426 ISBN 13: 9780713676426

Publisher: A&C Black, 2004

Synopsis

You'll never again confuse affect and effect! Have you ever been fazed by the spelling of phased, or fretted over the difference between anxiety and angst, stationery and stationary? If so, you are not alone: the English language is a minefield, full of words that look and sound alike but mean different things in different places. "Who's Whose? is an entertaining and essential A to Z guide to the most commonly confused words in English today, with real examples of good and bad usage to make differences crystal clear. In addition to documenting these verbal confusions, it offers a sympathetic guide to the seriousness of each gaffe (the Embarassment rating), an explanation of why it happens, and some handy hints on how to avoid it in future. With "Who's Whose in your corner, you'll never again mistake a principle for a principal.

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Review

'A useful handbook to the booby traps that lie in wait for us all' -- The Independent on Sunday, October 2004

About the Author

Philip Gooden read English at Magdalen College, Oxford, and then taught at secondary school level for many years. In 2001 he became a full-time writer. Philip writes books on the English language as well as historical crime novels and mysteries. He was chairman of the Crime Writers Association in 2007-8 and is part of the writing collective, The Medieval Murderers. He has also written the popular Who's Whose?: A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily-Confused Words, published by Bloomsbury.

About this edition

• Publisher: A&C Black
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0713676426
• ISBN 13: 9780713676426
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 484