Simply English
An A-Z of Avoidable Errors
$43.15
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
3 August 2015
Summary
The author of the best-selling Strictly English wages war on bad English.
In Strictly English, Simon Heffer explained how to write and speak our language well. In Simply English, he offers an entertaining and supremely useful A-Z guide to frequent errors, common misunderstandings, and stylistic howlers.
What is the difference between amend and emend, between imply and infer, and between uninterested and disinterested? When should one put owing to rat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099558460 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099558467 |
| Author: | Simon Heffer |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Windmill Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2015 |
| Weight: | 281g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
“It’s a bracing read. Heffer takes no linguistic prisoners. This is a useful, well-constructed and often absorbing book.”
Fascinating … a trove of riveting facts. * Daily Mail *
It’s a bracing read. Heffer takes no linguistic prisoners. This is a useful, well-constructed and often absorbing book. * Spectator *
Simply English is much more readable than a reference book has a right to be … basically Simply English is rather good. * Observer *
Advice that will change for ever the way you use certain words. * New Statesman *
Easy to use and terribly hard to put down … Essential. * The Field *
About The Author
Simon Heffer
Simon Heffer was born in 1960. He read English at Cambridge and took a PhD in modern history at that university. His previous books include:
- Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle
- Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell
- Power and Place: The Political Life of King Edward VII
- Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinvention of England
- Vaughan Williams
- Strictly English
- A Short History of Power
- Simply English
- High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain
In a thirty-year career in Fleet Street, he has held senior editorial positions on The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator, and is now a columnist for The Daily and Sunday Telegraphs.
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