Usage Books
Les mots dits
Qu'est-ce donc qu'un pataquès? Faut-il vraiment s'étonner qu'il neige dehors? L'égo-portrait et le mot-clic ont-ils de l'avenir? De l'origine toujours fascinante des expressions au redoutable accor...
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Vex hex smash smooch
Helps aspiring writers understand the importance of using powerful verbs in their work through examples of brilliant writing and presents a linguistic history to demonstrate how language and writin...
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Bad English
By Ammon Shea
"The author of Reading the OED presents an eye-opening look at language 'mistakes' and how they came to be accepted as correct--or not. English is a glorious mess of a language, cobbled together fr...
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