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Quite Literally: Problem Words and How to Use Them

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What’s an alibi, a bete noire, a celibate, a dilemma? Should underway be two words? Is
the word meretricious worth using at all? How do you spell realise—with an s or a z—
and should bete be bete? Should you split infinitives, end sentences with prepositions,
start them with conjunctions? What about four-letter words, euphemisms, foreign words,
Americanisms, cliches, slang, jargon? And does the Queen speak the Queen’s English?
This book tries to answer questions like these. It’s intended for readers and writers,
professional and amateur, established and aspiring, formal trainees and those trying to
break in; students of English, both language and literature, and their teachers.
It concentrates on writing rather than speech. It certainly doesn’t offer advice on how
to pronounce words—there’s nothing here about spoken accents. On the other hand, the
advice given on how to use words in writing can usually be applied to formal speech—
what is carefully considered, broadcast, presented, scripted or prepared for delivery to a
public audience—as opposed to informal, colloquial speech.
The book is intended to be practical—and also fun. Many of the points made are
illustrated with quotes. These come mainly from newspapers, magazines and books—in
other words from sources that are publicly available. Although the emphasis is on British
usage, papers like the New York Times and the Australian are included with the Times
and the Guardian.
Some of the quotes are from language experts. This is not an attempt to embarrass
them. It is because I have consulted books about language—dictionaries, style and usage
books and those written by academic linguists—for their content and in passing found
useful examples of usage. See page 250 for a list of books referred to.
It’s noticeable that there is something of a divide among those who write about
language between the conservatives and the radicals.
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