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How to Sound Really Clever: 600 Words You Need to Know
Author(s): Hubert van den Bergh (Author), Sandra Howgate (Illustrator)
- Publisher: A&C Black Business Information and Development
- Publication Date: 12 Sept. 2013
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 214 pages
- ISBN-10: 1408194856
- ISBN-13: 9781408194850
Book Description
How to Sound Really Clever explains and illustrates over 600 words that can outfox us, such as ‘condign’, ‘Zelig-like’ and ‘agitprop’. This is the sequel to the successful How to Sound Clever (2010) which taught you 600 words you really ought to know but haven’t had the time to look up in the dictionary. Each entry features an etymological description as well as useful example phrases so that readers can quickly see the correct context for each word. Anecdotes and witty illustrations appear throughout to make this an entertaining book that will help readers to boost their vocabulary.
Editorial Reviews
Review
A witty alphabetical list of tricky words in current usage including- for instance- ‘cynosure’, ‘obloquy’ and ‘hyperreal.’ Good writers are also word-collectors, and Hubert van den Bergh’s erudite follow-up to How to Sound Clever offers some prime examples to enrich the vocabulary. With etymological descriptions, useful example phrases and illustrations, How to Sound Clever is an entertaining vocabulary expander that demonstrates correct usage of the words with current meanings that may require a touch of clarification –Writer’s News Magazine
This witty book is an alphabetical list of less usual words and expressions which might impress others. Some are recondite, some are more familiar, with clear definitions and guidance on usage. I loved it. –Dr Bernard Lamb, President of the Queen’s English Society
A very handy resource when you need to make those fine distinctions between the ego and the superego, or if you can t tell your exogenous from your endogenous or want to know what makes for a diegetic soundtrack in a film. How to Sound Really Clever is a teasing mixture of the half-familiar and the intriguingly obscure, and it s all done with a light touch. –Philip Gooden, Author, Idiomantics
About the Author
Hubert van den Bergh has worked in the City for the past decade. A language enthusiast, he was awarded an academic scholarship from Oxford University, where he studied Modern Languages. Follow Hubert on Twitter @soundclever.
