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Rebel Without A Clause

Rebel Without A Clause

By Sue Butler

Hardback | ISBN 9781760788322

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The English language is changing constantly. We invent new words and phrases, we mash up idioms, we mispronounce, misuse, misappropriate. Sue Butler has heard it all and is ready to defend and disagree with common usage. Veering from tolerance to outrage, she examines how the word sheila took a nose-dive after World War II, considers whether we should hunker or bunker down, and bemoans the emptiness of rhetoric. She shouts 'down with closure' as it leaps from the psychoanalyst's couch, explains why we've lost the plot on deceptively, untangles the manuka honey stoush, fathoms why the treatment of famous is infamous, and ponders whether you would, could or should ...

Rebel without a Clause is a fascinatingly idiosyncratic romp through the world of words by lexicographer and former Macquarie Dictionary Editor, Sue Butler.

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Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781760788322
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Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Number of pages: 272
Width (mm): 136
Height (mm): 206
Depth (mm): 23

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