[PDF] 100 Words Almost Everyone Mispronounces eBook

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Page : 118 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 2008
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781480681989

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Contains the one hundred most mispronounced words in the English language, selected by the editors of the "American Heritage Dictionary," and presents each word in standard dictionary format, with added explanation regarding the correct pronunciation along with information about the history of misuse.

Author : Editors of the American Heritage Di
Publisher : Collins Reference
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547148113

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This latest installment in the bestselling 100 Word series settles the score on 100 controversies and misconceptions about words with difficult or slippery pronunciations.

Author : Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries
Publisher : HMH
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0547506015

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Eliminate mistakes and improve your vocabulary with this engaging guide to the world’s most misused words. Do you know your delegate from your relegate, your cachet from your cache? At one time or another we’ve all suffered the embarrassment of having our remarks corrected by a family member, colleague, or stranger. 100 Words Almost Everyone Mixes Up or Mangles presents fifty pairs of words that people have trouble getting right and keeping straight—words that tend to get corrected when we’re least expecting it. These words include near-synonyms—words with subtle but important distinctions in meaning—like baleful vs. baneful, and effectual vs. efficacious. Other pairings bring together notorious sound-alikes, like faze (bother) vs. phase (stage), pour (put in fluid) vs. pore (read closely), and waive (forgo) vs. wave (say hello). The book also addresses some classic spelling blunders and “nonwords,” like beyond the pail, full reign, injust, and inobstrusive. Each word has a definition and a pronunciation, and most have etymologies explaining the word’s origin. The mix-ups themselves are described in fun-to-read notes that provide clear solutions to help readers avoid making needless, uncomfortable gaffes. 100 Words Almost Everyone Mixes Up or Mangles gives readers the chance to improve their command of words that are often heard but just as often misused.

Author : Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0547350260

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Avoid vocabulary mistakes with this fun guide to tricky and troublesome words! With concise and authoritative usage notes from the editors of the American Heritage® Dictionaries, this guide explains common English-language errors—whether it’s mixing up affect and effect; blatant and flagrant; or disinterested and uninterested, or stumbling over sound-alikes including discrete/discreet or principal/principle. Other notes tackle such classic irritants as hopefully, impact, and aggravate, as well as problematic words like peruse and presently. A great read for anyone who cares about getting it right, 100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses can help keep writers and speakers on the up-and-up!

Author : Editors of Editors of the American Heritage Di
Publisher : Collins Reference
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,55 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780544791190

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A newly jacketed edition of this popular book that lists confusing words and explains how to use them properly

Author : Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 29,59 MB
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0544306635

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This A-to-Z reference is a fun way for elementary-school kids to improve their vocabulary—and become better readers and writers. With 100 Words Every 4th Grader Should Know, parents and teachers can present new and challenging words that will prepare kids to excel in their classes and in their reading. From accommodate to zest, each entry includes the word’s pronunciation, clear definitions of its various senses, and one or more short example sentences—along with longer quotations from such literary sources as The Hobbit and Island of the Blue Dolphins showing how the word is used in a broader context.

Author : American Heritage Publishing Company
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 17,80 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780618493333

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Contains one hundred of the most misused and confusing words in the English language such as "its" and "it's" and provides instructions on their proper usage.

Author : Jack Lynch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 15,72 MB
Release : 2009-11-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0802719635

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In its long history, the English language has had many lawmakers--those who have tried to regulate or otherwise organize the way we speak. Proper Words in Proper Places offers the first narrative history of these endeavors and shows clearly that what we now regard as the only "correct" way to speak emerged out of specific historical and social conditions over the course of centuries. As historian Jack Lynch has discovered, every rule has a human history and the characters peopling his narrative are as interesting for their obsession as for their erudition: the sharp-tongued satirist Jonathan Swift, who called for a government-sponsored academy to issue rulings on the language; the polymath Samuel Johnson, who put dictionaries on a new footing; the eccentric Hebraist Robert Lowth, the first modern to understand the workings of biblical poetry; the crackpot linguist John Horne Tooke, whose bizarre theories continue to baffle scholars; the chemist and theologian Joseph Priestly, whose political radicalism prompted violent riots; the ever-crotchety Noah Webster, who worked to Americanize the English language; the long-bearded lexicographer James A. H. Murray, who devoted his life to a survey of the entire language in the Oxford English Dictionary; and the playwright George Bernard Shaw, who worked without success to make English spelling rational. Grammatical "rules" or "laws" are not like the law of gravity, or even laws against murder and theft--they're more like rules of etiquette, made by fallible people and subject to change. Witty, smart, full of passion for the world's language, Proper Words in Proper Places will entertain and educate in equal measure.

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Page : 118 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 2010
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780329817435

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"100 Words Almost Everyone Mixes Up or Mangles" presents 50 pairs of words that people have trouble getting right and keeping straight--including near-synonyms, notorious sound-alikes, classic spelling blunders, and nonwords like "inobstrusive."