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The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations: The Complete Opinionated Guide for the Careful Speaker
The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations The Complete Opinionated Guide for the Careful Speaker
Author: Charles Harrington Elster
From the language maven whom William Sare calls "ek-STROR- di-ner-ee" comes an authoritative and unapologetically opinionated look at American speech. As Charles Harrington Elster points out, there is no sewer in connoisseur, no dip in diphthong, no spear in experiment, and, as not quite everyone knows, no pronoun in pronunciation. A culminati...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780618423156
ISBN-10: 061842315X
Publication Date: 2/22/2006
Pages: 544
Edition: 2
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Book Type: Paperback
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