Right, Wrong, and Risky: A Dictionary of Today's American English Usage
Right, Wrong, and Risky provides simple, direct answers to questions about word choice, spelling, grammar, and punctuation—in straightforward alphabetical order. The answers are supported by thousands of up-to-date published usage examples. And the reader is told not just that particular usages are right or wrong, but why.\ \ In addition, Right, Wrong, and Risky warns the reader about risky words like cleave and suspicious, and the many risky situations in which usage authorities disagree...
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For anyone challenged by the changes and controversies in the world's most widely used language: Standard American English. Library Journal Glamor or glamour? Glance or glimpse? Graceful or gracious? Ah, the wonderful (im)possibility of the English language: two words may sound the same but be written in an entirely different way, they my derive from the same root but have different meanings, or they may be spelled differently but be used interchangeably. Journalist and communications professor Davidson (who died last year) makes sense of it all in this easy-to-use A-to-Z listing of 2500 entries, demystifying the usage of words to help us express ourselves without sounding ambiguous or plain dull. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
\ Library JournalGlamor or glamour? Glance or glimpse? Graceful or gracious? Ah, the wonderful (im)possibility of the English language: two words may sound the same but be written in an entirely different way, they my derive from the same root but have different meanings, or they may be spelled differently but be used interchangeably. Journalist and communications professor Davidson (who died last year) makes sense of it all in this easy-to-use A-to-Z listing of 2500 entries, demystifying the usage of words to help us express ourselves without sounding ambiguous or plain dull. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.\ \
