Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words

Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words
Title Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words PDF eBook
Author Don Watson
Publisher Random House Australia
Pages 418
Release 2005
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1740513665

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The brilliant and bestselling companion volume to Don Watson's Death Sentence The prime minister speaks of core and non-core election promises, your boss asks you to commit to an involuntary career event (you're fired), and hospitals refer to negative patient outcomes (you're dead) - How to fight back? This book is a heavy weapon against politicians, managers and all those whose words kill brain cells and sink hearts. Striking a much-needed blow for truth and clarity, here is Don Watson, author of the international bestseller Death Sentence, at his sobering, scathing and wickedly funny best.

Weasel Words

Weasel Words
Title Weasel Words PDF eBook
Author Paul Wasserman
Publisher Capital Books
Pages 244
Release 2006
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9781933102078

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With more than 1,200 terms, this A to Z dictionary is a hard-hitting, politically savvy translation of all those evasions, put-on-holds, distortions, circumventions, obfuscations, and misleading terms used by government, businesses, and the media.

Weasel Words

Weasel Words
Title Weasel Words PDF eBook
Author Philip Howard
Publisher
Pages 180
Release 1983
Genre English language
ISBN 9780552990257

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Weasel Words

Weasel Words
Title Weasel Words PDF eBook
Author Mario Pei
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Pages 232
Release 1978
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN

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Surveys intentionally misleading words and how they are used in radio, TV, advertising, the press and politics, and how they affect the process of language change.

Never Tease a Weasel

Never Tease a Weasel
Title Never Tease a Weasel PDF eBook
Author Jean Conder Soule
Publisher Dragonfly Books
Pages 42
Release 2011-05-10
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 037587285X

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A funny, finger-wagging rhyme with some very good advice: never tease a weasel, because teasing isn't nice! Rather, kids should do nice things for animals, such as bake a drake a cake, or give a mule a pool, and much more. Long out of print, this new edition of Never Tease a Weasel with art by the great New Yorker cartoonist George Booth will surely please a weasel, and everyone else who reads it!

Death Sentences

Death Sentences
Title Death Sentences PDF eBook
Author Don Watson
Publisher Gotham
Pages 212
Release 2006-05-04
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9781592402052

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From one of Australia's best-known writers and public intellectuals comes a funny and profound polemic about the sorry state of public language and what can--and must--be done about it.

Strengthen Your Fiction by Understanding Weasel Words

Strengthen Your Fiction by Understanding Weasel Words
Title Strengthen Your Fiction by Understanding Weasel Words PDF eBook
Author Melissa Jagears
Publisher Utmost Publishing
Pages 85
Release 2018-02-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1948678012

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