This document discusses words and language. It talks about the origins of language in pictograms and letters. It then discusses tricky words and phrases, giving examples of words that are easily confused, misspelled, or mispronounced. It also provides tips for learning, advising to use simple rather than complex language. It ends by noting that while words themselves are free, how you use them can have costs.

1. By: Pankil Shah

2. A Few Words about Words
 Why this book???
- Right Words
- Wrong Words

3. Our Linguistic Legacy
Pictograms Letters

4. Our Linguistic Legacy
- Rooting Around
Anagram
- Searching for the Right Word

5. Our Linguistic Legacy

6. Tricky Words and Handy Phrases
- Small differences in spelling (home/hone)
- Different meanings and spellings but the same sound (waist/waste)
- Closely related and easily confused (emigrate/immigrate)
- Wrong-way words (inflammable)
- Frequently mispronounced (nuclear) or misspelled (memento)
- Non-words (irregardless)
- Out of the ordinary (hubris)

7. Learning
- Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word.
- Never use the passive where we can use the active.
- Never use a long word where a short one will do.
- Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which we are used
to see in print.

8. Words are free.It’s how you use them,
that may cost you…