When Is a Pig a Hog? A Guide to Confoundingly Related English Words

Randall, Bernice

ISBN 10: 013955212X / ISBN 13: 9780139552120

Published by Prentice Hall, New York, 1991

About this Item

vii, 328pp, two appendices, index of words. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. The book is arranged in eight sections with subtopics. Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 022307

Bibliographic Details

• Title: When Is a Pig a Hog? A Guide to Confoundingly Related English Words
• Publisher: Prentice Hall, New York
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 013955212X
• ISBN 13: 9780139552120
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Language, Dictionaries, Trivia, Law

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Synopsis

A handbook to closely related English terms covers human and not-so-human beings, places, things, concepts, the arts, nature, and science

Reviews

YA-- For anyone not sure about the difference between, for instance, denotation and connotation, a gene and a chromosome, neurosis and psychosis, this is a helpful book. Randall takes several hundred word kinships whose meanings are inexact in the public mind and clarifies them. The enemy under her attack is vague meaning, blurred boundaries, and hence careless speech. However, she does not limit herself to untangling such often cross-tangled verbal siblings. She defines other words--familiar in use but of uncertain meaning to many--such as bass, baritone, tenor, contralto, mezzo soprano, and soprano. In addition, two appendixes give information not easily incorporated into the text, namely gods and goddesses in Greek and Roman mythology and a geological time chart. --Constance M. O'Hearn, R. E. Lee High School, Fairfax County, VA
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