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Our language is changing faster than ever before, thanks to the influence of the media, e-mail, the Internet and text messaging. Modern communications are breaking down distinctions between formal and informal English, raising ever more questions as to how to speak and write correctly. This fully updated edition of the bestselling Good Word Guide offers information and advice on spelling, grammar, punctuation, pronunciation, confusables and the latest buzzwords, and provides clear, straightforward answers to everyday language problems. With a foreword by Martin Cutts, Research Director, Plain Language Commission. 'In every sense, a good word guide' Times Educational Supplement 'This intelligent guide is an essential addition to the bookshelves of all readers and writers' Good Book Guide
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'Modern communications are breaking down the distinctions between formal and informal English... Martin H Manser sets out to solve the problems faced by writers of English.'
-- Writer's New (August 2007)
About the Author:
-- Writer's New (August 2007)
Martin Manser is a Language Trainer and Consultant and has edited and authored many guides on language for a range of publishers including Penguin, Chambers, Collins and OUP.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0747536090
- ISBN 13 9780747536093
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
- EditorManser Martin H.
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