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- catalog alternative "Word or 2 before you go.".
- catalog contributor b761276.
- catalog created "1986.".
- catalog date "1986".
- catalog date "1986.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1986.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 181-182.".
- catalog description "Introductory: What are mistakes and why -- Part I: Guidelines -- The positive side of negatives -- "It makes no sense" -- English as she's not taught -- Enigma variations -- Le faux chic -- What makes writing right? -- Part II: Pitfalls -- Look for trouble ahead -- Promiscuous pairs -- Tonier than thou -- Page Mrs. Malaprop -- Vulgar, vulgarity, vulgarisms -- Points of passing -- Exercise in discretion -- Part III: False friends -- A copy editor's anthology -- The Naïveté of spelling reform -- Basic English: Whose pidgin is it? -- After Fowler's generation -- Dialogue in c-sharp -- "The rain in Spain," etcetera -- Part IV: "Words apt and gracious" -- What if-? English versus German and French -- A search for roots -- A real personal person -- For us readers' sake -- Mencken's America speaking -- On the necessity of common tongue.".
- catalog extent "xi, 190 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0819551740 (alk. paper) :".
- catalog identifier "0819562068 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1986".
- catalog issued "1986.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press ; Scranton, Pa. : Distributed by Harper & Row,".
- catalog subject "428 19".
- catalog subject "English language Errors of usage.".
- catalog subject "English language Usage.".
- catalog subject "PE1460 .B378 1986".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introductory: What are mistakes and why -- Part I: Guidelines -- The positive side of negatives -- "It makes no sense" -- English as she's not taught -- Enigma variations -- Le faux chic -- What makes writing right? -- Part II: Pitfalls -- Look for trouble ahead -- Promiscuous pairs -- Tonier than thou -- Page Mrs. Malaprop -- Vulgar, vulgarity, vulgarisms -- Points of passing -- Exercise in discretion -- Part III: False friends -- A copy editor's anthology -- The Naïveté of spelling reform -- Basic English: Whose pidgin is it? -- After Fowler's generation -- Dialogue in c-sharp -- "The rain in Spain," etcetera -- Part IV: "Words apt and gracious" -- What if-? English versus German and French -- A search for roots -- A real personal person -- For us readers' sake -- Mencken's America speaking -- On the necessity of common tongue.".
- catalog title "A word or two before you go-- / Jacques Barzun.".
- catalog title "Word or 2 before you go.".
- catalog type "text".