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In defence of plain English : the decline and fall of literacy in Canada /
This indispensable guide to the English language defines bad English and how to use and write good English.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Willowdale, Ont. :
Hounslow Press,
©1992.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; 1 Talking Classy; 2 Dat's a Good Woid; 3 Some Too Frequently Utilized "Good Woids"; 4 Oh, Say, CBC; 5 English Grammar: As It Lays Dyeing; 6 From Whence These Apotheoses and Epiphanies?; 7 Lost Words and Losing Battles; 8 Redundancy and Related Absurdities; 9 Prepositions, Pronouns, and Other Booby-traps; 10 Confusion Worse Confounded: Odd Couples; 11 Spelling Bee; 12 Trippingly on the Tongue: Casualties of Pronunciation; 13 Mind the Stop! Developing Comma Sense; 14 Foreign Classy; 15 Mad Metaphors; 16 Politically Correct?; 17 Jargon, Gobbledegook, and Bafflegab.