Between You and I.Between You and I James Cochrane Sourcebooks Inc. PO Box 4410, Naperville, IL 60567-4410 www.sourcebooks.com 1402203314 $11.95 1-800-432-7444 Bad English Bad English was an American rock band supergroup formed in 1988, reuniting keyboardist Jonathan Cain with singer John Waite and bassist Ricky Phillips, his former bandmates in The Babys. History The members decided on a name for the band while playing pool. isn't just about swearing and slang: it's also to be found in seemingly educated language as well as in uneducated writing: Cambridge University Cambridge University, at Cambridge, England, one of the oldest English-language universities in the world. Originating in the early 12th cent. (legend places its origin even earlier than that of Oxford Univ. graduate and editor James Cochrane here assembles some of the best faux paus of the English language English language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about 45 nations. , providing not only an a-z dictionary of commonly misused words and phrases Words and Phrases® A multivolume set of law books published by West Group containing thousands of judicial definitions of words and phrases, arranged alphabetically, from 1658 to the present. , but examples of how they are misused and when a better word would be more appropriate. Between You and I is a lively, fun read as well as a basic primer in proper usage. |
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