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Harold Evans
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in Manchester, The United Kingdom
June 28, 1928
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The 35 words you���re (probably) getting wrong
I freely acknowledge that, in a list of this sort, ���glossary��� is a fancy Latin word for a collection of pet peeves (noun, 1919), meaning an annoyance or irritation. One of my peeves is that, as a noun originating in America, it had not been admitted into the Shorter Oxford...
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Do I Make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well Matters
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My Paper Chase
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2009
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They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators
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2004
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Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers
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The American Century
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1998
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Good Times, Bad Times
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1983
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Pictures on a Page: Photojournalism, Graphics and Picture Editing
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1978
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War Stories: Reporting in the Time of Conflict from the Crimea to Iraq
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2001
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Eyewitness: 25 Years Through World Press Photos
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1981
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“Nothing is so tiring to the reader as excavating nuggets of meaning from mountains of words.”
― Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers
― Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers
“Adjectives not susceptible to modifiers are: certain, complete, devoid, empty, entire, essential, everlasting, excellent, external, fatal, final, fundamental, harmless, ideal, immaculate, immortal, impossible, incessant, indestructible, infinite, invaluable, invulnerable, main, omnipotent, perfect, principal, pure, round, simultaneous, square, ultimate, unanimous, unendurable, unique, unspeakable, untouchable, whole, worthless.”
― Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why Writing Well Matters
― Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why Writing Well Matters
“Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservative to anarchist—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
― Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why Writing Well Matters
― Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why Writing Well Matters
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