Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation by Ammon Shea

Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation

Ammon Shea

272 pages paperback 2014

4 editions

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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 cha...

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