Product Description
Horrible Words
Author: Rebecca Gowers
Format: Paperback
A Guide to the Misuse of English
'Stuffed with entertaining detail ... Horrible Words is lively, provocative, witty and enlightening' — The Times
Nothing inflames the language purists like an illogical irregardless or a hideous otherization. But is it enough simply to dismiss these words as vile and barbarous howlers? Taking a genial tour far and wide through our linguistic badlands, Rebecca Gowers finds answers that are helpful, surprising and often extremely funny.
'Exuberant, erudite, informative and fun ... a call on all English-speakers to trust their own feel for their language, to relish their verbal inventiveness and to do battle against the pedants who tell them they are wrong' — Michael Skapinker, Financial Times
'A very useful book, packed with good historical sense' — Lynne Truss, The Times
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