Usage and abusage
Subtitle: a guide to good English : abusus non tollit usum
By: by Eric Partridge.
Contributors: Whitcut, Janet.
Edition: New ed. / edited by Janet Whitcut, 1st American ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
Subjects: English language -- Errors of usage; English language -- Dictionaries; English language -- Grammar
Description: Usage and Abusage is a classic that has stood up well to the passage of time. But language does evolve over the years, and new problems (such as the use of "hopefully") and current topics (such as "sexism") have engendered a whole new vocabulary, which cannot be omitted from any book discussing the English of the 1990s. In this new edition, Janet Whitcut has revised Partridge's popular reference book to reflect the language of well-informed writers, readers, and speakers today. In addition, she has added a section to the book entitled Vogue Words, which includes words such as "crash" "symbiotic," and "viable" that have acquired a power and an influence beyond those that they originally possessed. Usage and Abusage wittily attacks linguistic abusage of all kinds and offers constructive advice on the proper use of English.