Write It Right (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781718763272)

Several hundred of Bierce's pet peeves. Bierce's list includes some distinctions still familiar today-the which-that rule, less vs. fewer, lie and lay - but it also abounds in now-forgotten shibboleths: Ovation, the critics of his time agreed, meant a Roman triumph, not a round of applause. Reliable was an ill-formed coinage, not for the discriminating. Donate was pretentious, jeopardize should be jeopard, demean meant "comport oneself," not "belittle." And Bierce made up a few peeves of his own for good measure. We should say "a coating of paint," he instructed, not "a coat."

Author: Ambrose Bierce
ISBN-10: 1718763271
ISBN-13: 9781718763272
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/10/2018
Pages: 44
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.16lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.09d