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Common Errors in English Usage

Third Edition

Author: Paul Brians  

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Revised and expanded third edition of Common Errors in English Usage remains a useful and fun guide to mixed-up, mangled expressions, foreign language faux pas, confusing terms, and commonly mispronounced words.

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Revised and expanded third edition of Common Errors in English Usage remains a useful and fun guide to mixed-up, mangled expressions, foreign language faux pas, confusing terms, and commonly mispronounced words.

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The revised and expanded third edition of Common Errors in English Usage remains a useful and fun guide to mixed-up, mangled expressions, foreign language faux pas, confusing terms, and commonly mispronounced words. Reviews: “I rarely take a Grammar Girl podcast live without at least quadruple-checking my main thesis, and Common Errors in English Usage has quickly become one of my most valued fact-checking resources.” —from the Foreword by “Grammar Girl” Mignon Fogarty, podcaster, author of Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

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Critic Reviews

“Paul Brians has written a handy and likable reference tool. When he gives you the right answer, he sends you off chuckling—a winning combination.” —Jack Miles, Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer and former literary editor, Los Angeles Times

“I’d call Paul Brians’ book incredible, fabulous, or fantastic, except thanks to him, I know now that none of those words are what I really mean. Let’s just say that Common Errors in English Usage is the most cheerfully useful book I’ve read since the Kama Sutra.” —Scott Simon, host of NPR’s Weekend Edition

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About the Author

PAUL BRIANS is Professor of English and Coordinator of Humanities at Washington State University. He has published extensively on nuclear war fiction, and has written numerous study guides on the literature of Africa, India, and the Caribbean. He is editor-in-chief of Reading about the World.

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The third edition is revised and expanded by 20 percent and remains a useful guide to mixed-up, mangled expressions, foreign language faux pas, confusing terms, and commonly mispronounced words.

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Product Details

Publisher
Franklin, Beedle & Associates Inc
Published
30th January 2013
Edition
3rd
Pages
384
ISBN
9781590282632

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