Description: An entertaining and informative guide to the most common 150 words even smart people use incorrectly, along with pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and tangled histories of use and misuse.
Even the most erudite among us use words like apocryphal, facetious, ironic, meteorite, moot, redundant, and unique incorrectly every day. Don’t be one of them. Using examples of misuse from leading newspapers, prominent public figures and famous writers, among others, language gurus Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras explain how to avoid these perilous pitfalls in the English language. Each entry also includes short histories of how and why these mistake have happened, some of the (often surprisingly nasty) debates about which uses are (and are not) mistakes, and finally, how to use these words correctly … or why to not use them at all. By the end of this book, every literati will be able to confidently, casually, and correctly toss in an “a priori” or a “limns” without hesitation.
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Book Title: That Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means Format: Hardback
Genre: General/trade
Narrative Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Name: That Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means : The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled Histories
Language: English
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Grammar & Punctuation, Popular Culture, Linguistics / Etymology, Linguistics / General
Publication Year: 2018
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 9.1 Oz
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science
Item Length: 7.2 in
Author: Ross Petras, Kathryn Petras
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Hardcover
