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MIchael McCarthy is Emeritus Professor of Applied
Linguistics at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is also
Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania
State University and at the University of Limerick, Ireland.
He is the author of many titles of interest to teachers, including
Spoken Language and Applied Linguistics. Well known as an
expert on the teaching and learning of vocabulary, he is a co-author of the basic and upper-intermediate levels of Vocabulary in Use, and is also Academic Consultant to the Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs and the Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms. He is co-author of the 2 latest successful corpus-informed publications by Cambridge University Press: Touchstone and Ca ...more

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Malapropisms: getting it (almost) right

I love malapropisms; some of them are very humorous, some are just a bit irritating because they are obviously the result of their users trying to sound posh or eloquent. What is really interesting about them is that, if used often enough by different people, they may well end up displacing the original accepted form.

I’ve collected a number of malapropisms over the years, from the usage of friends

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	English Vocabulary in Use Elementary by Michael McCarthy (Goodreads Author), Felicity O'Dell 4.18 avg rating — 334 ratings — published 1999 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	English Vocabulary in Use Upper-Intermediate & Advanced by Michael McCarthy (Goodreads Author), Felicity O'Dell 4.15 avg rating — 302 ratings — published 1994 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ashes Under Water: The SS Eastland and the Shipwreck That Shook America 4.01 avg rating — 273 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	English Vocabulary in Use Advanced by Michael McCarthy (Goodreads Author), Felicity O'Dell 4.39 avg rating — 247 ratings — published 2002 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	English Collocations in Use Intermediate by Michael McCarthy (Goodreads Author), Felicity O'Dell 4.30 avg rating — 165 ratings — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	English Phrasal Verbs in Use Advanced by Michael McCarthy (Goodreads Author), Felicity O'Dell 4.28 avg rating — 103 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	English Idioms in Use Intermediate by Michael McCarthy (Goodreads Author), Felicity O'Dell 3.99 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	English Phrasal Verbs in Use Intermediate by Michael McCarthy (Goodreads Author), Felicity O'Dell 4.25 avg rating — 91 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers 3.91 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1991 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Academic Vocabulary in Use by Michael McCarthy (Goodreads Author), Felicity O'Dell 4.12 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars