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Verlag: TarcherPerigee, 2014
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- Titel
- Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation
- Autor
- Shea, Ammon
- Verlag
- TarcherPerigee
- Veröffentlichungsjahr
- 2014
- Zustand
- Good
- Einband
- hardcover
- Sprache
- Englisch
- ISBN-10
- 0399165576
- ISBN-13
- 9780399165573
- Abmessungen
- 5x0x8
The author of Reading the OED presents an eye-opening look at language ?mistakes and how they came to be accepted as correct?or not.
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/which
Enervate/energize
Bemuse/amuse
Literally/figuratively
Aint Irregardless
Socialist
OMG
Stupider
Lively, surprising, funny, and delightfully readable, this is a book that will settle arguments among word lovers?and its sure to start a few, too.
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/which
Enervate/energize
Bemuse/amuse
Literally/figuratively
Aint Irregardless
Socialist
OMG
Stupider
Lively, surprising, funny, and delightfully readable, this is a book that will settle arguments among word lovers?and its sure to start a few, too.
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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor
Ammon Shea is the author of Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pagesalong with Depraved English, Insulting English, and The Phone Book.A dictionary collector, he has worked as a consulting editor of American dictionaries at Oxford University Press. He has also contributed to the "On Language" column in Sunday'sNew York Times and has reviewed language books for the New York Times Book Review. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Ammon Shea is the author of Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages, along withDepraved English, Insulting English, and The Phone Book. A dictionary collector, he has worked as a consulting editor of American dictionaries at Oxford University Press. He has also contributed to the On Language column in SundaysNew York Times and has reviewed language books for the New York Times Book Review.He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Ammon Shea is the author of Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages, along withDepraved English, Insulting English, and The Phone Book. A dictionary collector, he has worked as a consulting editor of American dictionaries at Oxford University Press. He has also contributed to the On Language column in SundaysNew York Times and has reviewed language books for the New York Times Book Review.He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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