Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words
A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right
One of the English language's most skilled and beloved writers guides us all towards precise, mistake-free usage.
In the middle 1980s Bill Bryson was a copy editor for the London Times with the brash idea that he could fill a hole in the British book market for a concise, accessible, handy guide to proper usage. A complete unknown, he nonetheless sold Penguin Books on the idea, and the result was The Penguin Dictionary of Troublesome Words, which sold decently enough on both sides of the Atlantic.
Now, fifteen years later, Bill Bryson has become, well, Bill Bryson -- and his terrifically useful little book has been revised, updated and Americanized to become Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words. Precise, prescriptive, sometimes (like its…
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May 7, 2013BILL BRYSON's bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and A Short History of Nearly Everything (which won the Aventis Prize in Britain and the Descartes Prize, the European Union's highest literary award). He was chancellor of Durham University, England's third oldest university, from 2005 to 2011, and is an honorary fellow of Britain's Royal Society.
The Body
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Icons of England
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The Road to Little Dribbling
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Notes from a Small Island
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One Summer
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At Home
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Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words
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At Home
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Seeing Further
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Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors
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A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
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