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Common Errors in English Usage, 3rd Edition Paperback – October 15, 2013

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The revised and expanded third edition of Common Errors in English Usage remains a useful and fun guide to mixed-up, mangled expressions, foreign language faux pas, confusing terms, and commonly mispronounced words.
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I rarely take a Grammar Girl podcast live without at least quadruple-checking my main thesis, and Common Errors in English Usage has quickly become one of my most valued fact-checking resources. --'Grammar Girl' Mignon Fogarty

Paul Brians has written a handy and likable reference tool. When he gives you the right answer, he sends you off chuckling--a winning combination. --Jack Miles, former literary editor, LA Times

I d call Paul Brians' book incredible, fabulous, or fantastic, except thanks to him, I know now that none of those words are what I really mean. Let's just say that Common Errors in English Usage is the most cheerfully useful book I've read since the Kama Sutra. --Scott Simon, host of NPR's Weekend Edition

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Paul Brians is Professor Emeritus of English at Washington State University. His 'Common Errors in English' Web site has been recommended by BBC Online, Writer's Digest, Yahoo! Internet Life magazine, USA Today, refdesk.com, the Seattle Times, and many other periodicals and publications.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ William, James & Co.
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 15, 2013
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 3rd
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1590282639
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1590282632
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.87 x 9 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #210,365 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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After earning his Ph.D. in comparative literature at Indiana University, Paul Brians worked for forty years as an English professor at Washington State University in Pullman. He taught, researched, and wrote about a wide variety of topics, including Medieval and modern European literature, science fiction, nuclear war fiction, the history of ideas, world civilizations before 1500, and South Asian fiction in English (works by authors from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka).

His Web site contains widely used study guides for various literary works, his photographs of various famous sites in the world, and the complete text of a revised second edition of his book "Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction."

In 1997 he began the on-line project "Common Errors in English Usage," which has attracted millions of users since and is continuously updated and revised. Two editions of a book by the same title have been published by William, James & Co., based on the Web site and supplemented with cartoons by Tom Sumner. From 2006 to 2010 the same publisher brought out a boxed daily calendar featuring a usage note on each page.

He is now retired to Bainbridge Island but continues to work on the "Common Errors" project and travels frequently to give public lectures on this and other subjects. His photographs of Bainbridge Island will soon be published in a book titled "Four Seasons on Bainbridge Island."

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