The Dimwit's Dictionary: More Than 5,000 Overused Words and Phrases and Alternatives to Them - Softcover

Fiske, Robert Hartwell

 
9781933338118: The Dimwit's Dictionary: More Than 5,000 Overused Words and Phrases and Alternatives to Them

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This compilation of thousands of overused words and phrases, and alternatives to them, is the ultimate tool for the writer who seeks to weed out common, tired, language and replace it with crisp, concise writing. Humorous examples of bad language make for great browsing, while readers can also look up specific clichés and find fresh options.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert Hartwell Fiske is the editor and publisher of The Vocabula Review, a journal about the English language, and the author of The Dictionary of Concise Writing. He lives in Rockport, Massachusetts. Joseph Epstein is the author of Friendship: An Expose and Snobbery: The American Version, and is the former editor of The American Scholar. His work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, and The New Yorker. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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