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Bad English by Ammon Shea

English is a glorious mess of a language, cobbled together from a wide variety of sources and syntaxes, and changing over time with popular usage. Many of the words and usages we embrace as standard and correct today were at first considered slang, impolite, or just plain wrong. Whether you consider yourself a stickler, a nitpicker or a rule-breaker in the know, BAD ENGLISH is sure to enlighten, enrage and perhaps even inspire. Filled with contemporary and historic examples, the book chronicles the long and entertaining history of language mistakes.

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Ammon Shea is the author of Depraved English, Insulting English, and The Phone Book, as well as Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages. He has served as a consulting editor of American dictionaries at Oxford University Press and is a dictionary collector. He has also written for the Sunday New York Times' On Language section and reviewed language books for the New York Times Book Review. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

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ISBN 13 9780399165580
ISBN 10 0399165584
Title Bad English
Author Ammon Shea
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published 2015-06-02
Number of pages 272
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.