Bloomsbury Good Word Guide
(Martin H Manser)
Herewith is another example of a well put together book incorporating nothing but
WORDS
WORDS
WORDS
At the beginning I began to ask myself the question "Do we really need another Language Book" are not the book shelves bursting at the seams with countless unread books on English Language! Well I dropped into a bookshop in Southampton and picked this one up! I was pleasantly surprised:
The Good Word Guide sets about navigating in and out of words, grammar and syntax: It includes two types of spelling - I wonder why only 2 rather than say - all kinds of spelling remind me of - you!
bloc/block
principal/principle
I have found in experience that there is a growing Frenchness about spelling in English which often leads to illiterate utterings - however, like most experts one day I don my
VERY CROSS response and then the next day I don my
VERY PLEASED persona!
Depending on why the writer or speaker is using and spelling these words thus!
PRINCIPAL meaning HEADMASTER
PRINCIPLE meaning THE ONE ON THE STAGE/THE PRINCIPLE€TOR!
used to be the easy way of defining these strange and exotic descriptions of time and space! Advice is offered on pronunctions especially of foreign words! I recently was ON COMMITTEE about the very same issue! Although there are many foreign pronunciations there are also from different parts of the English speaking world great diversity in pronunciation! Some scholars tend to the view that
/thats the influence of say, French, Gaelic, German, or Italian/ probably true! Latin of course has seeped into Literature and James Joyce uses it with great dexterity! Its not at all foreign!
Grammar/Irregular Verbs: DRINK DRUNK
(joke: quite the opposite : stone cold sober in other words - Teetotal/
Irregular verbs: GO WENT GONE
(joke: I GO too: I went over: Gone with the wind/
Excellent reading ...
Resumos Relacionados
- Cobuild Student's Dictionary And Grammar
- French Grammar Book: Le Nouveau Bescherelle
- The Little Spanish Abc Coloring Book
- Self Help To English Conversation
- Japanese For Busy People I (kana Version)
|
|
