Quite Literally: Problem Words and How to Use Them

by Wynford Hicks

Book Overview

This is a guide to English usage for readers and writers, professional and amateur, established and aspiring, formal trainees and those trying to break in; students of English, both language and literature, and their teachers.

In Quite Literally, Wynford Hicks answers questions like:

What's an alibi, a bete noire, a celibate, a dilemma? Should underway be two words? Is the word 'meretricious' worth using at all? How do you spell realise...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415320194
• ISBN13: 9780415320191
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 8.1"