Reinhold, Gottfried, 74 Roaming round Darling, 1x5 Roceric, Alexandra, 208
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Rodgers and Hammerstein, 147, 204 Rogers, Ginger, 205 Roget, Mark Peter, 171 Romani, 60
Rule of Anacronymy, 57 Rule of Bullshitternet, 57 ru-les (yes, “broken rules”), 45 Runyon, Damon, 202 Russell, Bertrand, 113 Saint Joan, 99
Saturday Evening Post, The, 114 scaermlbd words, 79 Scheme for a new Alphabet and a Reformed Mode of Spelling, A, 181 Schoolhouse Rock, 52, 201 Schulz, Charles, 64 Schumacher, Joel, 40 Schwarz, Sherwood, 132 Scobbie, Jim, 99 Scrabble, 181,186, 203, 204 Separated at Birth?, 17 Sesame Street, 204 Shakespeare, William, 72, 85, 100, 108,142, 169,177, 196, 197 Shakespearean Insult Generator, 108 Shall We Dance (the musical), 205 Shatner, William, 98 Shaw, George Bernard, 99, 114 Short Introduction to English Grammar with Critical Notes, A, 123, 139 Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, The, 224 Simon, Paul (bowtie politician, not revered songwriter), 101
slash, 214
Smith, Everett M., 169 Snopes.com, 138 Something That Happened, 206 souffle recipe (not really, but you could send me one?), 99 Spanish, 10, 21, 30, 32, 89, 101, 134 Spanish-American War, 101 Specious Histories & Ignorant Twaddle, 2, 54, 56, 57, 58, 59, 63, 65, 85
Speckter, Martin K., 214, 215 Speverend Rooner, 85 Spiderman, 157 split infinitives, 140, 142, 143 Spooner, The Rev. William, 85 Sports Illustrated, 29 Springsteen, Bruce, 200 Spy magazine, 17 Stahlke, Herb, 137
Star Trek (with no serious intent), 98 Starr, Ringo, 17, 189 Steinbeck, John, 103, 206 Stilman, Anne, 224 subject-verb agreement, 47 suffix, 135, 136, 143, 163,179,197 Swift, Tom (he said indexingly), 74 "Syphilis, sive morbus Gallicus,” 86 T Is for Trespass, 185 Table Alphabeticall, A, 70, 185 Taino, 89
Technicality Defense, 41 Tempest, The, 177 Ten Little Indians, 193
Everything You Know About English Is Wrong
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Tess of D’Ubervilles, 216 Thomas, Dylan, 114 Three Dog Night, 70 Thurmond, Stromm, 101 Time, At this point in, 106 To A Mouse, 103
Toby, John Steinbeck's dog, 206 Townsend, Pete, 202 Trek, Star (which is not now this show should be indexed, but we’re slaves to consistency), 98 Troilus and Criseyde, 122 Trump, Donald (and toupee), 93 Truss, Lynne, 124 Turner, Dicky, 26 Turtles, The, 146, 147 Twain, Mark, 97, 1 05 “Twist and Shout,” 140 Use of Roman numerals as page numbers (a real-life example), iii-xi Urdu, 129 Van Halen, 62 Vegetarian Society, 202 verbivore.com, 225 virgule, 174, 214 Vivian Grey, 75 vocabulary, 140 Voltaire, 98
von Munchhausen, Hieronymous Karl Friedrich, 75
vowels, 48, 74, 185, 188, 190, 191, 192 w, 185
Walcott, Derek, vii Watergate, 106
Webster’s Bitching About English, 69 Webster's New International Dictionary, 138
Welsh, 169, 190 White House, 106 White, E.B., 177
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, 86
Who, The (sort of), 202
Wilde, Oscar, 113, 114
Williams, Andy, 61
Wilson, Meredith, 25
Wilton, David, 56, 58, 95, 224
winstonchurchill.org, in
Wizard, Mr., 8
Wonder, Stevie, 61
Woodstock Music Festival, 61
Word Detective, 92
Word Myths, 56, 224
Wright, Ernest Vincent, 69
Wright, Steven, 170
Write Tight, 35
Wyle, George, 132
XeS, 2,152, 155— also see Xtreme
Etymological Statis (hey! it’s the next entry!)
Xtreme Etymological Stasis, 2, 30, 152,
153- U5- 159- 160 Yes, We Have No Bananas, 124 Yoda, Master, 140