The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate

Wordsmith and bestselling author Eugene Ehrlich, in his companion volume to the Highly Selective Thesaurus, addresses the words most corrupted through the media, by greedy lexicographers, and in common speech today. Between TV talk shows, Radio call-in shows, e-mail and the Internet, spontaneous-talk media has taken off in the 90s.

People are interacting more frequently and more fervently than ever before, and turning the English language into mush. Eugene Ehrlich’s been listening, and now he speaks in this concise compendium of the most confused and misused words, the words most under attack by careless speakers and writers everywhere, defines, discerns and distinguishes the finer points of sense and meaning.

Are you trying to remember, or more fully recollect? Is he uninterested or rightly disinterested? Healthful or healthy, regretful or regrettable, notorious or infamous?