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Modern Manglish : gobbledygook made plain / Neil James, Harold Scruby, Caroline Jones.

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Modern Manglish : gobbledygook made plain / Neil James, Harold Scruby, Caroline Jones.

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Modern Manglish : gobbledygook made plain / Neil James, Harold Scruby, Caroline Jones.

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Full title

Modern Manglish : gobbledygook made plain / Neil James, Harold Scruby, Caroline Jones.

Author / Creator

Publisher

Brunswick : Scribe Publications, 2011.

Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2011.

Date

2011.

Record Identifier

74VKam6RLo6y

MMS ID

991024332570002626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

1 online resource (176 pages)

Content type

text

Media type

computer

Carrier type

online resource

Contents

About the Author; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Doublespeak and Verbing; Tautologies and Other Redundancies; Click Go the Clichés; Buzzwords; Suitspeak; Mixed Metaphors; Euphemisms (or Youse-femisms); To PC or Not to PC; Pollie Waffle; Legal(un)ese and Coptalk; Lost...

Publication information

Publisher

Brunswick : Scribe Publications, 2011.

Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2011.

Place of Publication

Victoria

Date Published

2011.

2011.

Access and use

Access Conditions

National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries Online access with authorization

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Scope and Contents

Summary

'It's dog eat dog in this rat race.' 'We'll burn that bridge when we come to it.' 'I hope to come first or second, or at least to win it.' The information superhighway brings more text to our door than ever before. It's just that most of it gets mangled along the way. Twenty years ago, Harold Scruby's Manglish became an instant bestseller. This ver...

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Full title

Modern Manglish : gobbledygook made plain / Neil James, Harold Scruby, Caroline Jones.

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Author / Creator

Notes

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Mode of access: Available online.

Issued As

Print version James, Neil. Modern Manglish: gobbledygook made plain. Brunswick : Scribe Publications, ©2011 9781921844508

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Primary Identifiers

Record Identifier

74VKam6RLo6y

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKam6RLo6y

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ISBN

9781921942310 EPUB :

DDC

306.44

MMS ID

991024332570002626

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