The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left by David Crystal

The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left

David Crystal

256 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
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The story of battles--both past and present--surrounding English language usage, The Fight for English explores why millions of people feel linguistically inferior. Unhappy with the "zero tolerance" approach to punctuation offered by Lynn Truss's ...

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