Dictionary of Fine Distinctions : Nuances, Niceties and Subtle Shades of Meaning, Eli Burnstein

Dictionary of Fine Distinctions : Nuances, Niceties and Subtle Shades of Meaning, Eli BurnsteinNew Paperback Swamp or bog? Guilt or shame? Clementine or tangerine? We like to think that we choose our words with care, but are we using them with any degree of accuracy or should that be precision? For hair splitters and language lovers, Dictionary of Fine Distinctions explores the world of the vanishingly small, teasing apart the terms that we tend to collapse, conflate, or confuse. An illustrated odyssey into minute differences in meaning, Eli

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and the Old Woman of Gaelic tradition—Hutton challenges decades of debate around the female figures who have long been thought versions of pre-Christian goddesses

The natural Eden that humanity inherited is quickly slipping away

Examinations performed by male doctors were often demeaning and painful

She had experienced something of that herself when she was expelled from Moscow as a supposed 'security threat'

she realised that she barely knew the place at all

Enjoy family favourites such as Three cheese mac with chorizo crumb

as well as in book and manuscript history

speak to our own unstable world today

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