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Author Branden, Victoria.

Title In defence of plain English : the decline and fall of literacy in Canada / Victoria Branden.

Publication Info. Willowdale, Ont. : Hounslow Press, [1992]
©1992

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Description 1 online resource (x, 156 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-155).
Contents Foreword; 1 Talking Classy; 2 Dat's a Good Woid; 3 Some Too Frequently Utilized "Good Woids"; 4 Oh, Say, CBC; 5 English Grammar: As It Lays Dyeing; 6 From Whence These Apotheoses and Epiphanies?; 7 Lost Words and Losing Battles; 8 Redundancy and Related Absurdities; 9 Prepositions, Pronouns, and Other Booby-traps; 10 Confusion Worse Confounded: Odd Couples; 11 Spelling Bee; 12 Trippingly on the Tongue: Casualties of Pronunciation; 13 Mind the Stop! Developing Comma Sense; 14 Foreign Classy; 15 Mad Metaphors; 16 Politically Correct?; 17 Jargon, Gobbledegook, and Bafflegab.
Summary This indispensable guide to the English language defines bad English and how to use and write good English.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject English language -- Canada -- Usage.
English language.
Canada.
Literacy -- Canada.
Literacy.
Canadianisms.
Canadianisms.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Branden, Victoria. In defence of plain English. Willowdale, Ont. : Hounslow Press, ©1992 0888821433 9780888821430 (DLC) 93212826 (OCoLC)26805622
ISBN 9781554881987 (electronic book)
1554881986 (electronic book)
9781554886531 (e-book)
1554886538 (e-book)
0888821433
9780888821430