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Robert Hartwell Fiske's Dictionary of unendurable English : a compendium of mistakes in grammar, usage, and spelling : with commentary on lexicographers and linguists
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Uniform Title
Dictionary of disagreeable English
Title
Robert Hartwell Fiske's Dictionary of unendurable English : a compendium of mistakes in grammar, usage, and spelling : with commentary on lexicographers and linguists.
ISBN
9781451651317
9781451651324 (pbk) :
9781451651348 (ebook)
1451651317
1451651325 (pbk.)
Edition
1st Scribner ed.
Published
New York, NY : Scribner, 2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Notes
"Previously published as The dictionary of disagreeable English ... has been updated, revised, enlarged, and redesigned"--T.p. verso.
Summary
A comprehensive disctionary of common misusages illustrates the right way and the wrong way to use language and explores why dictionaries do not always provide the correct meaning or usage of a word.
Variant and related titles
Compendium of mistakes in grammar, usage, and spelling
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 454-456).
Contents
Prologue. The decline of the dictionary ; Remarks about the "Usage notes" in the New Oxford American dictionary
Imprecation
The dictionary of unendurable English
Language craven : a definition
Appendix A. Mock Merriam
Appendix B. The Fiske ranking of college dictionaries
Appendix C. Write to a laxicographer [sic].
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