Bierces write right von freeman jan (8 Ergebnisse)

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1st edition with 1 in the numberline; 8vo. black boards, hardcover; 229 pages; a fine, clean, tight, unmarked copy in a fine dustjacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 229 pages. Dj worn. Text foxed. One of America's foremost language experts presents an annotated edition o f A mbrose Bierce's classic catalog of correct speech. Ambrose Bierce is best known for The Devil's Dictionary, but the pro lific journalist, satirist, and fabulist was also a usage maven. In 1909, he pub lished several hundred of his pet peeves in Write It Right: A Little Blacklis t of Literary Faults.Bierce's list includes some distinctions still f amiliar today--the which-that rule, less vs. fewer, lie and lay -- but it also abounds in now-forgotten shibboleths: Ovati on, the critics of his time agreed, meant a Roman triumph, not a round of ap plause. Reliable was an ill-formed coinage, not for the discriminating. Donate was pretentious, jeopardize should be jeopard, dem ean meant comport oneself, not belittle. And Bierce made up a few peeves of his own for good measure. We should say a coating of paint, he instructed, not a coat. To mark the 100th anniversary of Write It Right, la nguage columnist Jan Freeman has investigated where Bierce's rules and taboos or iginated, how they've fared in the century since the blacklist, and what lies ah ead. Will our language quibbles seem as odd in 2109 as Bierce's do today? From t he evidence offered here, it looks like a very good bet.…