Good Word Guide.pdf

GOOD

WORD

GUIDE

GOOD

WORD

GUIDE

Editor

Martin H. Manser

Consultant Editors

Jonathon Green and Betty Kirkpatrick

Compilers

Rosalind Fergusson, David Pickering, and Jenny Roberts

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First published in 1988.

Third edition published as Bloomsbury Guide to Better English.

Fourth edition published in 1997.

Fifth edition published in 2003.

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,

38 Soho Square, London W1D 3HB

10987654321

British Library Cataloguing in Publication

A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library.

eISBN-13: 978-1-4081-0339-5

The moral right of the author has been asserted

Acknowledgments

The editor expresses his thanks to the following: the late John Silverlight

for his helpful comments as Consultant Editor on earlier editions,

Rosalind Desmond and Gloria Wren for their careful editorial checking,

Kathy Rooney and Faye Carney, of the publishers, for their encouragement

at every stage of the book’s production, and on the first edition, Sarah Peasley

for help in compiling the text and Margaret McPhee for advice on

Australian English.

All papers used by Bloomsbury Publishing are natural, recyclable products

made from wood grown in sustainable, well-managed forests. The manufacturing

processes conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin.

Typeset by Hewer Text Limited, Edinburgh

Printed and bound in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc

ISBN 0 7475 6524 4