By Wynford Hicks
This is a consultant to English utilization for readers and writers, expert and beginner, verified and aspiring, formal trainees and people attempting to holiday in; scholars of English, either language and literature, and their teachers.
In Quite Literally, Wynford Hicks solutions questions like:
- What's an alibi, a bete noire, a celibate, a dilemma?
- Should underway be phrases?
- Is the notice 'meretricious' worthy utilizing in any respect?
- How do you spell comprehend - with an s or a z - and may bete be bête?
- Should you break up infinitives, finish sentences with prepositions, begin them with conjunctions?
- What approximately four-letter phrases, euphemisms, international phrases, Americanizms, clichés, slang, jargon?
- And does the Queen converse the Queen's English?
The suggestion given may be utilized to either formal speech - what's rigorously thought of, broadcast, offered, scripted or ready for supply to a public viewers - and can even increase your daily languange too!
Practical and fun, whether to enhance your writing for pro reasons or just get pleasure from exploring the highways and byways of English utilization, readers from all walks of life will locate this book both worthy and enjoyable.
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Quite literally : problem words and how to use them
This can be a consultant to English utilization for readers and writers, expert and beginner, confirmed and aspiring, formal trainees and people attempting to holiday in; scholars of English, either language and literature, and their lecturers. In rather actually, Wynford Hicks solutions questions like:What's an alibi, a bete noire, a celibate, a obstacle?
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Times) Priests felt well-prepared for public ministry, remained faithful to the discipline of daily prayer and Mass, and had high regard for chastity and celibacy. (Times) In some cases there is confusion between the two meanings. What does celibacy mean in the following example? He voluntarily gave up the priesthood, retaining a commitment to celibacy. (Times) And in this? There has been little understanding of the source of abuse: paedophiles’ exploitation of the power and authority of the priesthood and their convenient though erroneous belief that sexually tampering with children does not necessarily undermine vows of celibacy.
Ed Vulliamy, Observer) beg the question see question, beg the behove not behoove belabour beat, attack, is confused with labour. Quite literally 32 beleagured is a vogue word for troubled, in difficulty, under pressure of some kind: Britain’s beleagured seaside resorts enjoyed a revival yesterday. (Guardian) belie means falsify, conceal; here it’s wrongly used to mean reveal: Hits like What’d I Say, however, belied another facet of his immense talent: his jazz skills. (Guardian) benefited, benefiting etc do not double the t.
The curate replies: ‘Oh no, my lord, I assure you! ’ A second point follows. Since most people get the curate’s egg wrong, it’s pretty silly in most contexts to use it at all. Is ‘a curate’s egg of a book’ a mixture of good and bad— or a thoroughly bad one that for some reason you decide to be euphemistic about? Also, if you do use a cliché, have the courage of your convictions: don’t apologise or struggle to justify your decision. This only makes matters worse since the reader becomes more aware of what you’re doing.