100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses (The 100 Words)

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Words Some People Confuse [Posted on 2007-10-17]
Not for advanced readers. This is pretty rudimentary stuff and is really for someone who doesn't read or write much. Price and format are both good. Might be a good gift for a high school student who is daunted by English courses.

I Didn't Like the Layout... [Posted on 2008-02-05]
It was hard to find certain words, and related/confused words that should appear together in the book are pages apart. I did find quite a bit of the information helpful, but finding it is a pain. That pretty much rules out making this a handy 'go to' reference book...

I got 88 Words almost everyone confuses & misuses [Posted on 2008-04-27]
Before mailing my book to me, someone took the liberty of making the book shorter by detaching a few pages from the spine. Oh well. It's a good toilet reader. If you already have a strong English background then you probably won't benefit much from what this has to offer. There were very few words I came across that I confuse or misuse; irregardless was one of them.

Easy Encyclopedia of Misused Ordinary Words [Posted on 2008-05-21]
"100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses" is meant for the closet lexicographer, or self-righteous vocabularies junkies like myself who love to watch TV and laugh at the errors of speakers. Naturally, we want to protect ourselves from the same fate, and here's where the editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries have helped us out.

100 words are here, from adverse to zoology. All will be familiar, but not all will be known. Troubling words, like 'discreet' and 'discrete,' are not only defined thoroughly, but clearly, with examples in common speech. Misuses are explained, and, before we become too smug, we discover words we too have confused.

Words like 'impeach' are included. In this case, it is not because there is a homonym, but because its definition has been misunderstood in popular language.

You will not invest either much time or money in this tiny treasure, but you might learn something. I have, and so then, I fully recommend "100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses."

Anthony Trendl
http://AnthonyTrendl.blogspot.com

Fun to flip through [Posted on 2008-06-24]
This is cute book that is fun to flip through and keep with your dictionary. It is essentially just a small dictionary and beyond definitions doesn't go into detail on entomology.

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