Imprint: Penguin
Published: 30/03/2017
ISBN: 9780141978970
Length: 224 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm
Weight: 170g
RRP: £8.99
'Stuffed with entertaining detail ... Horrible Words is lively, provocative, witty and enlightening' The Times
Nothing inflames the language purists like an illogical irregardless or a hideous otherization. But is it enough simply to dismiss these words as vile and barbarous howlers? Taking a genial tour far and wide through our linguistic badlands, Rebecca Gowers finds answers that are helpful, surprising and often extremely funny.
'Exuberant, erudite, informative and fun ... a call on all English-speakers to trust their own feel for their language, to relish their verbal inventiveness and to do battle against the pedants who tell them they are wrong' Michael Skapinker, Financial Times
'A very useful book, packed with good historical sense' Lynne Truss, The Times
Imprint: Penguin
Published: 30/03/2017
ISBN: 9780141978970
Length: 224 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm
Weight: 170g
RRP: £8.99
A great delight
Gowers is fierce, funny and staggeringly well informed
Stuffed with entertaining detail ... Horrible Words is lively, provocative, witty and enlightening
Exuberant and stimulating ... erudite, informative and fun
Witty ... wry ... As a heretic, Gowers cuts a formidable figure
A very useful book, packed with good historical sense
A joy - informative and irreverent
Witty and erudite ... A splendid antidote to small-minded pedantry
Will have you enraptured by etymology ... Hugely enjoyable