The Complete Plain Words: A Guide and Reference Book to the Use of English for Official and Other Purposes

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Author(s): Sir Ernest Gowers
Edition: 5th impression with amendments, 1958
Publisher: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office
Year: 1954

Language: English
Commentary: Flyleaves and backstrip from 2nd edition of 1973, remainder from 1958 fifth impression
Pages: 221
City: London
Tags: acrobatics, adjective, adverb, candour, cliche’, communication, conjugation, declension, English, epigram, Fowler, grammar, Graves, Grimm, HMSO, idiom, jargon, Jespersen, Latin, le mot juste, legal language, lexicon, Mencken, metaphor, mood, necromancy, neologism, noun, officialese, participle, preposition, pronoun, propaganda, punctuation, Quiller-Couch, solecism, spelling, syntax, verb, word order, vocabulary, voice, writing

Dustwrapper
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Backstrip
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Flyleaf-front
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Title Page
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Printer's imprint
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Preface
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CONTENTS
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1. Prologue
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2. A Digression on Legal English
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3. The Elements
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4. Correctness
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5. The Choice of Words (1)
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6. The Choice of Words (2)
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7. The Choice of Words (3)
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8. The Choice of Words (4)
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9. The Handling of Words
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10. Punctuation
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11. Epilogue
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Bibliography
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Index
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Flyleaf-rear
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