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 - with an s or a z - and should bete be bete?
Should you split infinitives, end...
This is a guide to English usage for readers and writers, professional and amateur, established and aspiring, formal trainees and those trying to b...
Concentrating on writing rather than speech, Wynford Hicks examines the usage of uncommon words, slang, & constructions that challenge conventional rules of grammar. When can it be right to split an infinitive, use jargon, or adopt a euphemism? And does the Queen speak the Queen's English?
Concentrating on writing rather than speech, Wynford Hicks examines the usage of uncommon words, slang, & constructions that challenge conventional ru...
