(MOBI) The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations by Charles Harrington Elster

[Adam Platt]

The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations
The Complete Opinionated Guide for the Careful Speaker
by Charles Harrington Elster

📕 The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations • READ MORE 📕

• ISBN: 9780618423156 (061842315X)
• Language: english
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Genres: language, reference, writing
• Release date: February 22, 2006
• Format: paperback, 544 pages
• Author: Charles Harrington Elster

About The Book

The definitive pronouncement on more than 1,500 of our most commonly mispronounced words.

From the language maven Charles Harrington Elster comes an authoritative and unapologetically opinionated look at American speech. As Elster points out, there is no sewer in connoisseur, no dip in diphthong, and no pronoun in pronunciation. The culmination of twenty years of observation and study, The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations is more than just a pronunciation guide. Elster discusses past and present usage, alternatives, analogies, and tendencies and offers plenty of advice, none of it objective. Whether you are adamant or ambivalent about the spoken word, Elster arms you with the information you need to decide what is acceptable for you.

The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations has now been expanded and revised and features nearly 200 new words, including:

al-Qaeda bruschetta commensurate coup de grâce curriculum vita exacerbate gigabyte hara-kiri machismo Muslim Niger Pinochet Pulitzer sorbet tinnitus w (as in www-dot)

and many, many more.

Charles Harrington Elster is the pronunciation editor of Black’s Law Dictionary and the author of various books about language, including Verbal Advantage, There’s a Word for It, and What in the Word? He has been a guest columnist on language for the Boston Globe and the New York Times Magazine and a commentator on NPR and hundreds of radio shows around the country.

MP3 ebook The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations read on Kindle. FictionBook book The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations Charles Harrington Elster download on Audible. EPUB The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations by Charles Harrington Elster buy for PocketBook on Powells. PDF ebook The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations.

TXT The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations iPad. MOBI book The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations by Charles Harrington Elster download on Booktopia. Paperback book The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations buy cheap reader on Books-a-Million. Hardback The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations Charles Harrington Elster read online.

Online ebook The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations Charles Harrington Elster for iOS. Hardcover ebook The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations buy on Barnes & Noble. FB2 book The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations by Charles Harrington Elster read on PC. Hardback The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations download on Kobo.

[saku-nana]

Janeology by Karen Harrington ~ 9781449502669

[投稿者]

投稿