Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties and Subtle Shades of Meaning Publisher / Atelier EXB Choosing collage

Choosing collage

each page is filled with a colourful

Ranging from the 17th-century development of decadent ukiyo-e

including Manet’s Olympia

Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties and Subtle Shades of Meaning Publisher / Atelier EXB Choosing collageSwamp or bog? Guilt or shame? Poisonous or venomous? We pick from a wealth of words to express ourselves each day, giving precious little thought to the specifics or their meaning. But are we using them with any degree of accuracy or should that be precision? For hair splitters and language lovers, Dictionary of Fine Distinctions explores the words that too many of us collapse, conflate or confuse. Inspecting the vanishingly small distinctions between