Index:The Complete Plain Words, second edition.pdf

Title	The Complete Plain Words (2nd edition)
Author	Ernest Gowers; revised by Bruce Fraser
Year	1973
Source	pdf
Progress	To be proofread
Transclusion	Index not transcluded or unreviewed

Pages (key to Page Status)

Cover Dust jacket – – i ii iii iv v vi vii viii ix x 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 – – – Dust jacket –

Contents

Preface page iii
1.	Prologue	1
2.	A preliminary digression	8
3.	The elements	11
4.	Correctness	22
5.	The choice of words: introductory	42
6.	The choice of words: avoiding the superfluous word	52
7.	The choice of words: choosing the familiar word	70
8.	The choice of words: choosing the precise word	91
9.	The handling of words	111
10.	Punctuation	171
11.	Some recent trends	191
12.	Some selected passages	208
13.	A concluding miscellany	221
14.	Epilogue	227
Bibliography		231
Index		233