Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation by Ammon Shea

Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation

Ammon Shea with Mike Chamberlain (Narrator)

Audiobook edition 7h 21m audio 2014

4 editions

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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...

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