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Bad English
- Author
- Ammon Shea
- Narrator
- Mike Chamberlain
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 19 August 2014
- Run Time
- 7 hours 21 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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 historic and contemporary examples, the book chronicles the long and entertaining history of language mistakes, and features some of our most common words and phrases, including decimate, hopefully, enormity, that vs. which, enervate vs. energize, bemuse vs. amuse, literally vs. figuratively, ain't, irregardless, socialist, OMG, and stupider.
Lively, funny, and surprising, this is a book that will settle arguments among word lovers—and it's sure to start a few, too.
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Details
- Author
- Ammon Shea
- Narrator
- Mike Chamberlain
- Duration
- 7 hours 21 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 August 2014
- ISBN
- 9781494574437
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Language: reference and general, Linguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics
Synopsis
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 historic and contemporary examples, the book chronicles the long and entertaining history of language mistakes, and features some of our most common words and phrases, including decimate, hopefully, enormity, that vs. which, enervate vs. energize, bemuse vs. amuse, literally vs. figuratively, ain't, irregardless, socialist, OMG, and stupider.Lively, funny, and surprising, this is a book that will settle arguments among word lovers—and it's sure to start a few, too.
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