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This entertaining and informative handbook deals with hundreds of difficult or misunderstood words-pairs and groups of words which are troublesome, misused, or abused. Drawing on a lifetime love affair with words, teacher, scholar, and professional communicator Robert Oliver Shipman explains their difficulty or confused use in clear, concise prose, identifies their parts of speech, defines their meanings, and illustrates their correct use through witty and humorous examples. A Pun My Word shows that words can be used with both the preciseness of a surgeon and the wittiness of a jester. A Writer's Digest Book Club Selection.
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About the Author
Robert Shipman is an Emeritus Professor of Mass Communications, Mankato State University.
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This prescriptive, somewhat old-fashioned handbook on usage emphasizes correct word choice ( compose / comprise / con sist /include , decimate / demolish / destroy , ob scenity / profanity / vulgarity ) and warns against confusion ( mendacity / mendicity , loath / loathe, tortuous / torturous ) . However, hair / heir , voyageur / voyeur, immu nity / impunity hardly need clearing up. Some entries are not well explained (the difference between journey and voyage , for example), and some rely too much on a knowledge of grammar (clauses, case, verbals), although a glossary of terms helps. Using characters such as Luke Warm, Ava Rice, and Tab Lloyd, this book is fun, if a bit sexist, but it is not complete enough to be a good reference.
- Kitty Chen Dean, Nassau Coll., Garden City, N.Y.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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