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

Who's Whose?:

A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily Confused Words Book

The English language is a minefield, full of words that look and sound alike but mean different things in different places. Here's an entertaining and essential guide to the most commonly confused words in English today, with real examples of good and bad usage.

You'll never again confuse affect and effect
Have you ever been fazed by the spelling of phased, or fretted over the difference between anxiety and angst, stationery and stationary? If so, you are not alone: the English language is a minefield, full of words that look and sound alike but mean different things in different places.

"Who's Whose?" is an entertaining and essential A to Z guide to the most commonly confused words in English today, with real examples of good and bad usage to make differences crystal clear. In addition to documenting these verbal confusions, it offers a sympathetic guide to the seriousness of each gaffe (the Embarassment rating), an explanation of why it happens, and some handy hints on how to avoid it in future. With "Who's Whose" in your corner, you'll never again mistake a principle for a principal.
Philip Gooden has contributed to Who's Whose?: A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily Confused Words as an author. Philip Gooden is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction. He is currently the chair of CWA in the UK. He has been shorlisted for the Ellis Peters Award, and his nonfiction reference book Faux Pas won the Duke of Edinburgh's English Speaking Union Award for Best English Language Book in 2006.