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Langue : anglais
Edité par Macmillan Australia, 2020
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- Titre
- Rebel Without A Clause
- Auteur
- Sue Butler
- Éditeur
- Macmillan Australia
- Année de publication
- 2020
- État de l'article
- Very Good
- Jaquette
- No Jacket
- Reliure
- Hardcover
- Langue
- anglais
- ISBN à 10 chiffres
- 1760788325
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9781760788322
- Poids de l'article
- 1,01 livre
The English language is changing constantly. We invent new words and phrases, we mash up idioms, we mispronounce, misuse, misappropriate. Sue Butler has heard it all and is ready to defend and disagree with common usage. Veering from tolerance to outrage, she examines how the word sheila took a nose-dive after World War II, considers whether we should hunker or bunker down, and bemoans the emptiness of rhetoric. She shouts 'down with closure ' as it leaps from the psychoyst's couch, explains why we've lost the plot on deceptively , untangles the manuka honey stoush, fathoms why the treatment of famous is infamous, and ponders whether you would, could or should ...
Rebel without a Clause is a fascinatingly idiosyncratic romp through the world of words by lexicographer and former Macquarie Dictionary Editor, Sue Butler.
Rebel without a Clause is a fascinatingly idiosyncratic romp through the world of words by lexicographer and former Macquarie Dictionary Editor, Sue Butler.
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