Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation by Ammon Shea

Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation

Ammon Shea

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272 pages | first published 2014

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The author of Reading the OED presents a 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...
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