Contradictionary - An A-Z Of Confusibles, Lookalikes And Soundalikes de SPIEGL, Fritz: Fine Soft cover (2003)

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Do you know the difference between acetic and ascetic? Burgers and burghers? Bucolic and alcoholic? Complaisant and compliant? A cassock, a Cossack, a hassock, a hillock, a hummock and a pillock? If not, this book provides the answers. With entries varying from pithy brevity to mini essays, this textbook should be useful for anyone who has ever been caught using the wrong word in the wrong place (or been caught out being too clever by half). Readers, writers and students of media studies will find answers to frequently asked questions - and a number of questions it has never occurred to them to ask. This is a 1st edition paperback in fine condition-spine lightly creased. (252 pages).

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T�tulo

Contradictionary - An A-Z Of Confusibles, Lookalikes And Soundalikes

Editor

U.K / Kyle Cathie Limited

Fecha de publicaci�n

2003

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

185626484X

ISBN 13

9781856264846

Encuadernaci�n

Soft cover

Estado

Fine

Estado de la sobrecubierta

No Jacket

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Sinopsis

Do you know the difference between acetic and ascetic? Burgers and burghers? Bucolic and alcoholic? Complaisant and compliant? A cassock, a Cossack, a hassock, a hillock, a hummock and a pillock? If not, this book provides the answers. With entries varying from pithy brevity to mini essays, this textbook should be useful for anyone who has ever been caught using the wrong word in the wrong place (or been caught out being too clever by half). Readers, writers and students of media studies will find answers to frequently asked questions - and a number of questions it has never occurred to them to ask.

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Do you know the difference between acetic and ascetic? Burgers and burghers? Bucolic and alcoholic? Complaisant and compliant? A cassock, a Cossack, a hassock, a hillock, a hummock and a pillock? If not, this book provides the answers. With entries varying from pithy brevity to mini essays, this textbook should be useful for anyone who has ever been caught using the wrong word in the wrong place (or been caught out being too clever by half). Readers, writers and students of media studies will find answers to frequently asked questions - and a number of questions it has never occurred to them to ask.

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