Dictionary of Confusable Words - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1579582710 ISBN 13: 9781579582715

Verlag: Routledge, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Adjacent or adjoining? Abuse or misuse? Consist, comprise, constitute, or compose? Guarantee or warranty? Pose, propose, or propound? Stationery or stationary? The Dictionary of Confusable Words aims to clear up the confusion in such cases. In more than 1,100 entries, the meaning of 3,000 individual words are given,the difference between them is explained, and an illustrative example showing the correct usage is provided. The book also includes specific examples to show past and present usage of words, and words occuring as the second or subsequent in a group are cross-referenced to ther head word in the appropriate alphabetical place. Editor Adrian Room has also included some familiar proper names that are sometimes confused, such as Liberia and Libya (countries), Monterey and Monterrey (towns), and Lloyds and Lloyd's (financial institutions). Classic or classical? Discreet or discrete? Continual or Continuous? Principle or Principal? Confused? Be confused no longer, with this handy book as your user-friendly guide.

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Adrian Room, Anne-Lucie Norton

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1579582710
• ISBN 13: 9781579582715
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 260
• Herausgeber: Room Adrian
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland