Richard Lederer, author of Anguished English and other popular language books: "If you love language and the unvarnished truth, you'll love Everything You Know About English Is Wrong." FeatureBook.com: "A good counterpoint to Lynne Truss’s anxiety-inducing Eats, Shoots & Leaves."

Sample Entries: Here we include some tastes of Everything You Know About English Is Wrong, including an entry that demonstrates that what you know is not BS even though it is bull, and one that defiantly defends one of the poster children of persnickitorial claims that the language is deteriorating. The language is not deteriorating. Think of it this way: Picture the fantastic rock formations in the Southwestern U.S. Wind erosion caused change, and remember how beautiful the results are. Sample Entry 1: Bull: File under “Shit, Bull”: “Bull!” is not necessarily a scatological epithet. Sample Entry 2: Impact: Using impact as a verb is not an abomination. It is a celebration. Sample Entry 3: Debt: File under “B, Spelling”: Debt is undoubtedly subtly misspelled. Sample Entry 4: Plural's: You do not use an apostrophe when forming plurals. Sample Entry 5: Scrabble: File under “AAAQOWJIFLQWIUZZZJRHA“: Scrabble is not playing fair. Sample Entry 6: Hoi Polloi: File under “Polloi, Hoi”: There is no English redundancy in the phrase, “the hoi polloi.” Sample Entry 7: Utilize: File under “Utile, the Futile”: Utilize is not a bad word. Sample Table of Contents: Well, actually it's the only table of contents the book has.

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