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(0)Kathryn Petras
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Do you ever feel different? That you're a little weird, a little wacky? Or that you don't fit? Well, Kathryn and Ross Petras are here to remind you that, as Lewis Carroll wrote, "All the best people are." From the connoisseurs of quotes whose books, starting with Age Doesn't Matter Unless You're a Cheese, have over TK copies in print, comes a collection of thoughts that celebrate the virtues of being different and the power of inclusivity. Quoting...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"For word nerds and grammar geeks, an illustrated guide to the most commonly mispronounced words, along with their correct pronunciations and pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and histories of use and misuse. With wit and good humor, this handy little book not only saves us from sticky linguistic situations but also provides fascinating cocktail-party-ready anecdotes. Entries reveal how to pronounce boatswain like an old salt on the...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Wretched writing is the lowest of the low; it is a felonious assault on the English language. Exuberantly excessive, it is a sin committed often by amateurs and all-too-frequently by gifted writers having an off day. In short, it's very bad writing. Truly bad. Appallingly bad. It's also very funny. A celebration of the worst writing imaginable, Wretched Writing includes inadvertently filthy book titles, ridiculously overwrought passages from novels,...
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