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Gowers is fierce, funny and staggeringly well informed (Alan Connor Mail on Sunday)
Stuffed with entertaining detail ... Horrible Words is lively, provocative, witty and enlightening (The Times)
Exuberant and stimulating ... erudite, informative and fun (Financial Times)
Witty ... wry ... As a heretic, Gowers cuts a formidable figure (The Times Literary Supplement)
A very useful book, packed with good historical sense (Lynne Truss The Times)
A joy - informative and irreverent (Caroline Taggart)
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Will have you enraptured by etymology ... Hugely enjoyable (Reader's Digest)
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Gowers is fierce, funny and staggeringly well informed (Alan Connor Mail on Sunday)
Stuffed with entertaining detail ... Horrible Words is lively, provocative, witty and enlightening (The Times)
Exuberant and stimulating ... erudite, informative and fun (Financial Times)
Witty ... wry ... As a heretic, Gowers cuts a formidable figure (The Times Literary Supplement)
A very useful book, packed with good historical sense (Lynne Truss The Times)
A joy - informative and irreverent (Caroline Taggart)
Witty and erudite ... A splendid antidote to small-minded pedantry (Robbie Millen The Times)
Will have you enraptured by etymology ... Hugely enjoyable (Reader's Digest)
Nothing inflames the language gripers like a misplaced disinterested, an illogical irregardless, a hideous operationalisation. To purists these are 'howlers' and 'non-words', fit only for scorn. But in their rush to condemn such terms, are the naysayers missing something?
In this provocative and hugely entertaining book, Rebecca Gowers throws light on a great array of horrible words, and shows how the diktats of the pedants are repeatedly based on misinformation, false reasoning and straight-up snobbery. The result is a brilliant work of history, a surreptitious introduction to linguistics, and a mischievous salute to the misusers of the language. It is also a bold manifesto asserting our common rights over English, even as it questions the true nature of style.
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- Año de publicación2016
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- ISBN 13 9781846148514
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