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  • Published: 27 January 2005
  • ISBN: 9780140514421
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $32.99
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Usage and Abusage

A Guide to Good English




A major event in reference publishing - Penguin Dictionaries are getting a brand-new look.

Usage and Abusage takes a long, hard look at the use - and constant misuse - of English. Declaring war on bad grammar, woolliness of expression and poor choice of vocabulary, this essential guide sets out both to highlight problems and pitfalls and to offer constructive advice on the proper use of English.

  • Published: 27 January 2005
  • ISBN: 9780140514421
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the author

Eric Partridge

Eric Partridge was born in New Zealand in 1894 and attended the universities of Queensland and Oxford. After working for three years as a schoolteacher, he served as a private in the Australian infantry in the First World War. In 1921 he was appointed Queensland Travelling Fellow at Oxford and was later a lecturer at the universities of Man­chester and London. He founded the Scholartis Press in 1927 and managed it until 1931. In 1932 he became a full-time writer, except for his years of service in the Army and the RAF during the Second World War. Among his publications on language are A Dictionary of

Slang and Unconventional English, which was published in paperback as A Dictionary of Historical Slang and was abridged by Jacqueline Simpson; A Dictionary of Cliches, Shakespeare's Bawdy (1947); A Diction­ary of the Underworld (1950); Origins: An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (1958); Name this Child (1959), a book of Christian names; Comic Alphabets (1961); The Gentle Art of Lexicography (1963); and A Dictionary of Catch Phrases (1977). Eric Partridge died in 1979.

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