Your Own Words,9781582432830

Your Own Words

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9781582432830
ISBN10: 158243283X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-03-09
Publisher(s): Counterpoint
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Summary

Answers to such questions as how to keep proper syntax from sounding stiff and keeping conversational language from being incorrect are offered in this guide to using and understanding language resources and making good form one's own. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Author Biography

Barbara Wallraff, a senior editor and the back-page "Word Court" and "Word Fugitives" columnist for The Atlantic, has worked for the magazine since 1983. In the world of language commentary, Barbara offers an unequaled combination of authority, accessibility, and popularity. Besides her work for The Atlantic, she is a weekly syndicated columnist for King Features. She is the author of the nationally best-selling book Word Court and Your Own Words.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
CHAPTER ONE My Own Words 1(10)
The purpose of "correct English" isn't to lord it over others but to communicate with them. Easier said than done.
CHAPTER TWO Secrets Dictionaries Know 11(42)
Rarely do we let dictionaries help us as much as they could. And to get full benefit, all we'd have to do is pay attention.
CHAPTER THREE Getting the Answers You Want 53(24)
An imaginary perfect dictionary, how the real dictionaries compare with it, and how to choose the dictionary that suits you best.
CHAPTER FOUR The Infinite Resource 77(28)
The Internet is an astonishingly wide-ranging and authoritative repository of answers to language questions, as long as you know where and how to look.
CHAPTER FIVE The Kind of Style You Can Buy 105(18)
Stylebooks can simplify everyone's writing life. Here's why.
CHAPTER SIX Read the Manual 123(40)
Usage manuals are chock-a-block with valuable guidance you won't find anywhere else. But like every other kind of reference work, they give widely divergent advice. Come meet the leading manuals and get to know them.
CHAPTER SEVEN Special-Purpose Tools 163(34)
Etymological dictionaries, dictionaries of colloquialisms and slang, quotation dictionaries, visual dictionaries, reverse dictionaries, thesauri, pronunciation guides, grammar books, learners' dictionaries, foreign dictionaries, old dictionaries, and other nifty resources.
CHAPTER EIGHT Do It Yourself 197(56)
Lots of questions, including many of the kind that word lovers love best: questions for which no definitive answers exist, leaving us to think them through for ourselves.
CHAPTER NINE Your Own Words 253(12)
But wasn't the idea to be able to communicate?
Index 265

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