Words Most Often Misspelled and Mispronounced

By James Colvin and Ruth Gleeson Gallagher

Book Overview

If you are an office worker or a student--if you write of dictate letters--if you prepare talks or speeches for social or business occasions--here is a reference work to help you master spelling and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671648748
• Release Date: June 1987
• Publisher: Pocket
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.5" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

In the era before spell checkers.

This book is of its time and made a gallant attempt at correcting 23,000 words in the English language. Luckily, it is the U.S. English language. Being well-focused, it is not like a dictionary and has made space to explain the spelling or its history. The one fatal flaw is that it cannot consider many mispronounced words that cannot be corrected even with spell it as it sounds. Today’s spell checkers try to figure out what you mean by context. It is still useful if you cannot reach a terminal of some sort.

I use this book all the time

I got my copy my first year in college from a classmate who did not need it. It is the one book from my college days I still use regularly. In fact a co-worker saw it today a wondered where he could get one.

Send me another one please!

I am now ordering my third copy of this book since was originally publish in 1964. Each copy is used until the pages turn yellow and it falls apart. I wish it would be published in in hardback with quality paper.