That Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means: The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled Histories

An entertaining and informative guide to the most common 150 words even smart people use incorrectly, along with pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and tangled histories of use and misuse.

Even the most erudite among us use words like apocryphal, facetious, ironic, meteorite, moot, redundant, and unique incorrectly every day. Don’t be one of them. Using examples of misuse from leading newspapers, prominent public figures and famous writers, among others, language gurus Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras explain how to avoid these perilous pitfalls in the English language. Each entry also includes short histories of how and why these mistake have happened, some of the (often surprisingly nasty) debates about which uses are (and are not) mistakes, and finally, how to use these words correctly … or why to not use them at all. By the end of this book, you will be able to confidently, casually, and correctly toss an “a priori” or a “limns” without hesitation.

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Weight	350 g
Dimensions	19 × 12 × 4 cm
Author(s)	Roass Petras and Kathryn Petras
Book Condition	New
Country of Origin	USA
Language	English
Product Form	Paperback
Publishers	Ten Speed Press

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