Words: A User's Guide is an accessible and invaluable reference
that is ideal for students, business people and advanced learners
of English. The book is structured in groups of words that may be
confused because they sound alike, look alike or seem to have
similar meanings, and this approach makes it much more intuitive
and easy to use than a dictionary. Contrasting over 5000 words
(such as habitable and inhabitable, precipitation and rainfall,
reigns and reins), Words: a User's Guide provides examples of usage
adapted from large national databases of contemporary English, and
illustrates each headword in typical contexts and phrases. This
book gives you straightforward answers, and helps with
pronunciation, spelling, style and levels of formality. For those
working internationally it presents international standards and
compares usage in Britain and the USA. Words: A User's Guide is an
excellent resource for anyone who wants to communicate well in
written and spoken English. "At last! A book about the use of words
that clarifies and de-mystifies in an eminently usable way. I would
recommend it to anyone who wants to write well. It is a book to
keep." Sandy Gilkes, Head of the Centre for Academic Practice,
University of Northampton "Rigorous, fresh, intriguing and
downright useful, it deserves a place on every properly stocked
reference shelf." Brian Cathcart, Professor of Journalism, Kingston
University "From the pedantic to the permissive, everyone who's
interested in the English language and the way we speak and write
it will want a copy of this practical, entertaining book." Wynford
Hicks (author of Quite Literally and The Basics of English Usage)
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