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Bad English

A History of Linguistic Aggravation

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Bad English

Written by: Ammon Shea
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
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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, 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 audiobook 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 an audiobook that will settle arguments among word lovers-and it's sure to start a few, too.

©2014 Ammon Shea (P)2014 Tantor
Education & Learning Linguistics Social Sciences Funny
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"On the playground of language, there is no more mischievous laddie than Ammon Shea." (Roy Peter Clark, author of The Glamour of Grammar)

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