Customer Reviews

Who's Whose: A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily Confused Words

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Very useful and highly entertaining book. Good explanations, clear examples and well written.

However, it has two problems that should cost a star each:

- The layout of the pages is quite bad. A reference book like this cannot afford this type of blunder. In all cases it is very difficult to quickly find the actual definition of the words under study. You need to read the whole thing to be able to find it.

- Some of the pitfalls are a bit ludicrous. Do people really confuse Libertarian with Libertine? Industrial with Industrious? Livid with Lurid? Ad hoc with Ad lib? De facto with de jure? In cases like this the author just shows examples of correct usage--perhaps because it would be very difficult to find examples of incorrect usage.

Can be helpful as a guide to correct word usage, but a number of examples are words not often used and the perspective seems to be of British English. However, regardless of any practical applications, if one is at all linguistically inclined the book is interesting in itself and written in a breezy and entertaining style.

The book is clear and interesting. Fun to flip through and easy to use as a reference. Good choice.

I love this book; it is well written and easy to understand. I recommend it to those who want to avoid confusion in written expression.