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Media Contact

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Reviews

"Our English vocabulary has grown to more than a million words, including hundreds of confusable word pairs and triads. The Wrong Word Dictionary will help you sort out all those look-alikes, sound-alikes, and mean-alikes."
- Richard Lederer author of Comma Sense: A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation

"If you want to help ensure that you don't use the wrong word -- say, eminent for immanent or immanent for imminent or imminent for eminent, read Dave Dowling's compilation of more than 2,000 usage errors, The Wrong Word Dictionary. With this book, you can correct your own usage errors as well as those of others. Believe me, it's better to embarrass than to be embarrassed."
- Robert Hartwell Fiske, The Vocabula Review.

"One of the most comprehensive and usable collections of common word usage problems that we have ever seen, this book will surely help any user to write the right word. As an added bonus, each chapter begins with a quotation about writing or word choice from some of the greatest authors in history."
- Ed McCorduck, Department of English, State University of New York College at Cortland and president of English Consulting and Language Reference Services.

"The Wrong Word Dictionary brought a smile to my face with every page. As an editor I run across the misuse of words on a daily basis. I am sure most writers are very careful in their word choice, still mistakes do happen. Dowling's book is one of those that every writer should study."
- Leon Ogroske, Editor, WRITERS' Journal

"At some point, who hasn't used lay instead of lie, or effect instead of affect? Whether the error is a result of confusion or carelessness, it can be embarrassing, especially in business writing. Fortunately, we now have The Wrong Word Dictionary, a handy reference for writers seeking to quickly clarify the correct usage of more than 2,000 oft-misused words. Whether you're drafting a business proposal, typing an e-mail,or writing a book review, you'll find The Wrong Word Dictionary an essential aid."
- Katherine Giles, The Bas Bleu Catalog

Writer's Digest Book Club

The Wrong Word Dictionary is also a member of the Writer's Digest Book Club. Marion Street Press, the Independent Publisher's Group, and Dave Dowling sincerely thank the Club for its recognition and membership.