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Caroline Taggart

500 Words You Should Know

Caroline Taggart has worked in publishing for nearly 30 years, the last 18 of them as a freelance editor of non-fiction. She has edited innumerable natural history titles, notably Jonathan Scott's Big Cat Diary books and the tie-in to the BBC series Walking with Dinosaurs, as well as books on gardening, cookery, health, witchcraft, pop music, the Blitz, the D-Day landings, the House of Commons and the English language. She has also written a handbook for mature students and an encyclopaedia of dogs. Caroline's books have sold over 850,000 copies and the first book she wrote was I Used to Know That, a Sunday Times bestseller published in 2008. This was followed by My Grammar and I (also a Sunday Times bestseller), Answers to Rhetorical Questions, A Classical Education, An Apple a Day and Pushing the Envelope. Her books have appeared in the Sunday Times, Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, the Times, the Sun and many other publications, and her frequent television and radio appearances include BBC1 Breakfast, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live.
155 printed pages
Copyright owner
Michael O'Mara Books
Publication year
2014
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    That blue dress really complements your eyes. That remark is, of course, a compliment, which That red dress really complements your eyes probably isnt.
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    ignoble

    In front of a word beginning with n, the prefix ig- means ‘not’, so ignoble is simply ‘not noble
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    combination of distorted, distasteful and bizarre:

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