Usage and Abusage

📓 Which is to be preferred - 'nom de plume\ pseudonym, or pen-name: What are neologisms, disguised conjunctions, and fused participles? How should one set about writing a precis? More generally, where does usage end and abusage begin?Language is everybody's business, and enters into almost every part of human life. Vet it is all too often misused: directness and clarity disappear in a whirl of cliches, euphemisms, and woolliness of expression. This book wittily attacks linguistic abusage of all kinds, and at the same time offers helpfully constructive advice on the proper use of English. Eric Partridge is well known for his books on words and usage, and this is the most comprehensive of them all.Издательство - Penguin books