Simon Heffer
Scarcely English : An A to Z of Assaults On Our Language Hardcover...
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The English language has evolved throughout its history, and usually for good reasons. However, in recent years, egged on by social media and the ubiquity and velocity of the internet, it has been subject to some grave assaults. There appear no longer to be any rules, in an era when, thanks to the web (another word to have changed its meaning) everyone can be a published author, completely unedited and unregulated. This often has dire consequences for the English tongue.Simon Heffers A to Z runs though a whole litany of common confusions (flaunt and flout, imply and infer, uninterested and disinterested), unidiomatic English (fed up of, focus around, the use of impacted in such construction as the loss impacted him badly), and lazy expressions (these days every extended activity is an athon, every scandal is a Somethinggate). It bemoans some truly awful neologisms, infotainment and funwashing among them. And it registers the horror of those of us who do not believe that you can answer the question How are you? with the words Im good.Trenchant and sprinkled with dry wit, Scarcely English is both a chamber of horrors of bad and lazy English and a plea for accuracy, clear thinking and elegance.
Binding: Hardcover;352 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: CBX; Weight: 500 g; Dimensions: 222 x 143 x 28
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The English language has evolved throughout its history, and usually for good reasons. However, in recent years, egged on by social media and the ubiquity and velocity of the internet, it has been subject to some grave assaults. There appear no longer to be any rules, in an era when, thanks to the web (another word to have changed its meaning) everyone can be a published author, completely unedited and unregulated. This often has dire consequences for the English tongue.Simon Heffers A to Z runs though a whole litany of common confusions (flaunt and flout, imply and infer, uninterested and disinterested), unidiomatic English (fed up of, focus around, the use of impacted in such construction as the loss impacted him badly), and lazy expressions (these days every extended activity is an athon, every scandal is a Somethinggate). It bemoans some truly awful neologisms, infotainment and funwashing among them. And it registers the horror of those of us who do not believe that you can answer the question How are you? with the words Im good.Trenchant and sprinkled with dry wit, Scarcely English is both a chamber of horrors of bad and lazy English and a plea for accuracy, clear thinking and elegance.
Binding: Hardcover;352 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: CBX; Weight: 500 g; Dimensions: 222 x 143 x 28
Something not quite right? You have 21 days from the day you receive it, to send something back. When you purchase Debenhams Deliver+, you will have an extra 14 days on top of our standard 21-day window to initate a return.
Please note, we cannot offer refunds on fashion face masks, cosmetics, pierced jewellery, adult toys, and swimwear or lingerie if the hygiene seal is not in place or has been broken.
Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.
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Simon Heffer
Scarcely English : An A to Z of Assaults On Our Language Hardcover...
“Refund was approved and back in my account the same day.” - Deliver+ customer
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