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Plain Words

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Plain Words

By Rebecca Gowers, Ernest Gowers

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About the book

'Be short, be simple, be human.'When Sir Ernest Gowers first wrote Plain Words, it was intended simply as a guide to the proper use of English for the Civil Service. Within a year, however, its humour, charm and authority had made it a bestseller. Since then it has never been out of print.Six decades on, writer Rebecca Gowers has created a new edition of this now-classic work that both revises and celebrates her great-grandfather's original. Plain Words has been updated to reflect numerous chang...Show more

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9780241960349

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2015

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1

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Plain Words

Format

Paperback

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