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.
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English language. |
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Canada. |
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Literacy -- Canada.
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Literacy. |
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Canadianisms.
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Canadianisms. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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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) |
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1554881986 (electronic book) |
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9781554886531 (e-book) |
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1554886538 (e-book) |
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0888821433 |
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9780888821430 |
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