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Contents
Front Matter
Essays
Abbreviations
-able
Absolute Constructions
Abstractitis
adjective
Adverbs
ae
-agog(ue)
-aholic
Airlinese
Alliteration
Americanisms and Briticisms
Anachronyms
Animal Adjectives
ante-
Anticipatory Reference
Appositives
Archaisms
-atable
-athlon
Back-Formations
Be-Verbs
bi-
Bureaucratese
-c-
Cannibalism
Capitalization
-cast
Casualisms
-ce
Century Descriptions
Chronology
-cide
Class Distinctions
Clichés
co-
Collective Nouns
Commercialese
Comparatives and Superlatives
Computerese
Concord
Conjunctions
Contractions
Contronyms
Correlative Conjunctions
Count Nouns and Mass Nouns
Danglers
Dates
Denizen Labels
Diacritical Marks
Dialect
Differentiation
diminutive
Diminutives
Directional Words
Document Design
Double Bobbles
Double Modals
Doublespeak
Double Subjects
Dysphemism
-ed
-edly
-ee
en-
Enumerations
-er
Ergative Verbs
-esque
Etymology
Euphemisms
ex-
Expletives
extra-
First Person
Flotsam Phrases
Footnotes
for-
Formal Words
-free
Fudge Words
Functional Shift
Fused Participles
Gallicisms
Garner's Law of Loanwords
Germanicisms
Gerunds
Governmental Forms
Headlinese
Hobson-Jobsonism
Hybrids
Hypallage
Hypercorrection
-ic
-ics
-ile
Illogic
Incomplete Sentences
Inelegant Variation
inter-
Inversion
Irregular Verbs
Italics
-ize
Jargon
Latinisms
Legalese
Literary Allusion
Malapropisms
Metaphors
Metathesis
Miscues
Mondegreens
Morphological Deformities
Mute E
Names
Needless Variants
Negatives
Neologisms
Nonwords
Noun Plague
Numerals
Numerical Prefixes
Object-Shuffling
Obscurity
Officialese
-or
Overstatement
Oxymorons
Parallelism
Passive Voice
per-
Periphrasis
Phrasal Adjectives
Phrasal Verbs
Place Names
Plain Language
Plurals
Pointing Words
Political Correctness
Portmanteau Words
Possessives
Postpositive Adjectives
Prepositions
Preventive Grammar
Profanity
Pronouns
pronunciation
Punctuation
Puns
quadri-
Questions, Direct and Indirect
Quotations
re- Pairs
Redundancy
Remote Relatives
Retronyms
Run-On Sentences
Sentence Adverbs
Sentence Ends
Sentence Length
Sesquipedality
Set Phrases
Sexism
Skunked Terms
Slang
Slipshod Extension
Sound of Prose
Spelling
Split Infinitives
Standard English
Subject–Verb Agreement
Subject–Verb Separation
Subjunctives
Subordination and Coordination
Superstitions
Swapping Horses
Synesis
Tenses
Titular Tomfoolery
Tmesis
Understood Words
Verbal Awareness
Vogue Words
Vowel Clusters
Weasel Words
Wellerisms
-wise
Woolliness
Word Patronage
Word-Swapping
-worthy
Zeugma
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