title: 1,101 Words2watch: A Wordsmith's Guide to Misused and Confusing Words
author: David Athol Coe
description: What an excellent guide! Well done David. I'll definitely give it to all of our journalists. - Alan Kohler, editor in chief, Business Spectator and Eureka Report. One of the most powerful tools we have in communication is the use of the right word in the right context in the right application. The tragedy of management is we pay so little attention to getting this right. The right word backed by enthusiasm, commitment and the authentic passion of a leader shakes the heart and rattles the brain. - Mark Cutifani, CEO, Anglogold-Ashanti. Every writer/communicator should have a copy of David's bible. Keep this next to the laptop and you're on the way to producing clean and clear copy. - Chris Pash, writer of Cliche of the Week. For those moments when a hastily written note might accidentally turn a new friend from a Boer to a bore (or even a boar or, worse, a boor), David Coe has created a neat aide memoire. - Michael Gill, former publisher of the Australian Financial Review. Thanks for your wordsmith (I love the broad possibilities of that word) guide, which is a handy and useful checklist. I was particularly glad to see 'accept' and 'except' in there as they are my two black beasts. - Robyn FitzRoy, chair, WealthPortal.
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  Contents
  Foreword	by	Richard	Lederer
  Preface
  PART	ONE.	Advice	on	Writing	Concisely
  Chapter	1.	The	Perfectibility	of	Words
  Chapter	2.	The	Imperfectibility	of	People
  PART	TWO.	Dictionary	of	Concise	Writing
  PART	THREE.	Guide	to	Obfuscation:	A	Reverse	Dictionary
  Acknowledgments
  
  Words	are	like	leaves;	and	where	they	most	abound,	Much	fruit	of	sense	beneath	is	rarely	found.
  —ALEXANDER	POPE,	Essay	on	Criticism	POLONIUS:	What	do	you	read,	my	lord?
  HAMLET:	Words,	words,	words.
  —WILLIAM	SHAKESPEARE,	Hamlet,	act	2,	scene	2
  A	barren	superfluity	of	words.
  —SIR	SAMUEL	GARTH,	The	Dispensary,	canto	2
  Let	thy	words	be	few.
  —ECCLESIASTES	5:2
  Reckless	writers	and	slipshod	speakers	use	many	words	where	few	would	do.	...	Yet	for	all	the	words,	their	expression	is
  but	impoverished;	more	words	do	not	necessarily	signify	more	meaning.
  Life	is	measured	by	its	meaning,	and	a	good	deal	of	that	meaning	is	inherent	in	the	words
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