Who's Whose: A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily Confused Words

by Philip Gooden

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You’ll never again confuse affect and effect!

Have you ever been fazed by the spelling of phased, or fretted over the difference between anxiety and angst, stationery and stationary? If so, you are not alone: the English language is a minefield, full of words that look and sound alike but mean different things in different places.

Who’s Whose? is an entertaining and essential A to Z guide to the most commonly confused words in English today, with real examples of good and bad usage to make differences crystal clear. In addition to documenting these verbal confusions, it offers a sympathetic guide to the seriousness of each gaffe (the Embarassment rating), an explanation of why it happens, and some handy hints on how to avoid it in future. With Who’s Whose in your corner, you’ll never again mistake a principle for a principal.

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Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3 out of 5 stars

She is very feminine, you are a bit effeminate and I am effete, 2007-05-28
Very useful and highly entertaining book. Good explanations, clear examples and well written.

However, it has two problems that should cost a star each:
- The layout of the pages is quite bad. A reference book like this cannot afford this type of blunder. In all cases it is very difficult to quickly find the actual definition of the words under study. You need to read the whole thing to be able to find it.
- Some of the pitfalls are a bit ludicrous. Do people really confuse Libertarian with Libertine? Industrial with Industrious? Livid with Lurid? Ad hoc with Ad lib? De facto with de jure? In cases like this the author just shows examples of correct usage--perhaps because it would be very difficult to find examples of incorrect usage.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars

Useful and fun, 2007-05-24
The book is clear and interesting. Fun to flip through and easy to use as a reference. Good choice.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars

Who's Whose: A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily Confused Words, 2007-05-23
I love this book; it is well written and easy to understand. I recommend it to those who want to avoid confusion in written expression.

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