Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2-2003
Publication Title
Choice
Publisher
American Library Association
Volume
40
Issue
6
First page number:
1
Abstract
Travel writer and humorist Bryson has revised, adapted, and updated his style guide, first published in 1984 in Britain as Penguin Dictionary of Troublesome Words and in the US as Facts on File Dictionary of Troublesome Words, to appeal to contemporary American book buyers. Presenting itself as a "compilation of suggestions, observations, and treasured prejudices," the work compiles and comments on commonly misspelled words and proper nouns and other conundrums of usage scrupulous writers or copy editors may face.
Keywords
Books — Reviews; Composition (Language arts); Creative writing; Reference books
Disciplines
Library and Information Science | Other Rhetoric and Composition | Speech and Rhetorical Studies
Language
English
Repository Citation
Finley, P.
(2003).
Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words.
Choice, 40(6),
1.
American Library Association.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/lib_articles/290
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