num_pages: 289
description: This book, in the same league as Fowler's Modern English Usage and Sir Ernest Gowers's The Complete Plain Words (Godine, 1988), is aimed at providing both writer and speaker with a relatively painless reference, an easy means to avoid, or at least diminish, those painful blunders and howlers that we hear every day on network TV.
language: English
title: Say What You Mean: The Superior Person's Guide to Precise and Lucid English Usage
titlecomplete: Say What You Mean: The Superior Person's Guide to Precise and Lucid English Usage
genres: Reference, Textbooks, Language, Linguistics, Writing, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 89
publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher