Verbatim: From the bawdy to the sublime, the best writing on language for word lovers, grammar mavens, and armchair linguists by Erin McKean

Verbatim: From the bawdy to the sublime, the best writing on language for word lovers, grammar mavens, and armchair linguists

Erin McKean

372 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

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A brilliant, witty, and engagin exploration of the many facets of the English language.For thir years VERBATIM: The language Quarterly has published amusing, interesting, and occasionally useful essays on concept, usage, jargon, wordplay, lexicogr...

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