Curious about Word Up?
Help yourself to these PDF’d chapters:
- Contents
- Foreword by Scott Abel
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- To Be or Not To Be
- Talk—I Mean Obfuscate—Your Way to the Top
- The Only Thing These Signs Have in Common
- Her and I: How to Banish Painful Personal-Pronoun Pairings
- To Each Their Own
- Whom Ya Gonna Call
- Hyphens Unite!
- To Hyphenate or Not To Hyphenate After a Noun: That Is the Wrong Question
- Let Me Count the—Different?—Ways
- The Pen Is Mightier Than the Shovel
- You Don’t Know From Prepositions
- A Modern Take (Is Take a Noun?) on Parts of Speech
- The Last Word
- A Definition Is Where You Don’t Say Is Where
- Metaphors Are Jewels
- Lend Your Commas a Hand—or Two
- Touching Words
- Explore and Heighten: Magic Words from a Playwright
- Coming Soon to the Small Screen
- How To Do How-To: Watch Your Steps
- What Brand R U?
- Who’s Your Sam?
- Decisions, Decisions
- Glossary
- Topics Index
- Names Index
- Titles Index
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Marcia, that’s a really nicely crafted index. You’ve given loads of clues as to what readers can expect from each reference. Lots of intriguing stuff there — looking forward to clicking on some of those index entries for real!
Joe, I can’t wait myself. Thanks for the comment.
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