Everything you know about English is wrong

  1. Everything you know about English is wrong
  2. ENGLISH
  3. WRONG
  4. ENGLISH
  5. WRONG
  6. SKOSH, TEMPURA
  7. A.D./B.C.
  8. FEMALE
  9. OUTRAGE
  10. THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND
  11. RESOUND
  12. PEN, PENCIL, PENIS, PEST, PESTER (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)
  13. JOURNEYMAN
  14. GARDENIA
  15. MINUSCULE
  16. THROWS AND THROES
  17. CHILE/CHILI/CHILLY
  18. PEANUT
  19. CURMUDGEON
  20. TEETOTALER
  21. DIALOGUE
  22. TRIAGE
  23. Reredundancy Rerevisited
  24. HOI POLLOI
  25. SAHARA
  26. ISLAND-ISLAND
  27. LUKEWARM
  28. GOOD GOOD REDUNDANCY
  29. The Grammar Damner
  30. PLURAL’S
  31. RBI
  32. WE, MYSELF, AND I
  33. A OR AN
  34. CANNOT
  35. The Broken Are Made to Be Rules
  36. E.I.
  37. E.I., PART II (AND THEREFORE, I.E.)
  38. SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT
  39. VOWEL RULES
  40. WHO, WHOM, WHOOMER, WHOOMEST
  41. BETWEEN
  42. CONJUNCTIONS
  43. Acronymania: Specious Histories &
  44. Ignorant Twaddle _
  45. SHIT (BLUSH BLUSH)
  46. POSH
  47. GOLF
  48. FUCK (BLUSH BLUSH)
  49. GORP
  50. NEWS
  51. TIPS
  52. SIC
  53. Notymology, and Other Tales from the Bullshitternet _
  54. BULLSHITTERNETISMS
  55. JIFFY
  56. PUMPERNICKEL
  57. SOS
  58. SNOB
  59. SCAERMLBD WORDS
  60. EPONYMS
  61. BUG, COMPUTER
  62. BARBECUE
  63. KILL
  64. TESTIFY
  65. HONEYMOON
  66. SIRLOIN
  67. FIRED!, YOU’RE
  68. LIES IN THE 1500s
  69. DANCERS OF SPEAKING ENGLISH
  70. Can’t We Even Get Our Own Cliches Right?
  71. CONCISION
  72. GHOTI
  73. GREEK TO ME, IT’S ALL
  74. JESUS CHRIST, ENGLISH SPEAKER
  75. BURNS, ROBERT AND STEINBECK, JOHN
  76. THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING
  77. TWAIN, MARK
  78. TIME, AT THIS POINT IN
  79. DONNE, AND UN-DONNE
  80. CHURCHILL, WINSTON (PART I)
  81. CHURCHILL, WINSTON (PART II)
  82. BRITISH VS. AMERICAN ENGLISH
  83. I Am Aware of the Target I’m Placing on My Back
  84. IMPACT, AS VERB
  85. HOPEFULLY
  86. AIN’T
  87. ITS/IT’S
  88. OVEREXAGGERATION
  89. ANOTHER
  90. DOUBLE NEGATIVES
  91. EATS
  92. TEACH/LEARN
  93. UTILIZE
  94. Mistakes
  95. COULD
  96. THE BIG CHEESE
  97. HANGNAIL
  98. ISLE/ISLAND
  99. BLINDFOLD
  100. BUTTONHOLE
  101. MANO A MANO
  102. REPLENISH
  103. MISTLETOE
  104. CRAYFISH
  105. DORD
  106. You Don’t Speak Latin, and Not a Whole Lot of Greek, Either
  107. ENDING A SENTENCE WITH A PREPOSITION
  108. SPLIT INFINITIVES
  109. SPLIT INFINITIVES, PART II 4 '... ER,
  110. PART 2
  111. SPLIT INFINITIVES, PART 3
  112. ET CETERA
  113. ET CETERA, ETC.
  114. KplTpiA— IS OR ARE?
  115. KUDOS
  116. DEBT
  117. Oh, Stop Being So Cranky, or I’ll Give You Something to Be Cranky About _
  118. COHORT
  119. DECIMATE, PART I
  120. DECIMATE, PART II
  121. THE SAHARA DESERT, PART II
  122. LIGHT/LITE, NIGHT/NITE
  123. FIGURATIVE/LITERAL
  124. DATA
  125. Y’ALL
  126. English Is Not from England, and Other Little Surprises
  127. ENGLISH (THE LANGUAGE)
  128. ADJECTIVE
  129. NONCE-WORD
  130. CAN
  131. HYPHENS, AS OPPOSED TO DASHES
  132. OXYMORON
  133. PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICO-
  134. VOLCANOCONIOSIS
  135. ETYMOLOGY
  136. THESAURUS
  137. LINGUISTIC TERMINOLOGY
  138. COMMA FAULTS
  139. Animal Farm
  140. ASININE
  141. PUSSYFOOT
  142. HOGWASH
  143. OINKOINK
  144. SWINE
  145. COWARD
  146. GREYHOUND
  147. Abecedarianisms
  148. QOPH
  149. LETTERS
  150. GRAY/GREY
  151. ET CETERA, ETC., AND SO ON AND SO FORTH AND BLAH BLAH BLAH.
  152. VOWELS, PART I
  153. VOWELS, PART II
  154. VOWELS, PART III
  155. VOWELS, PART IV (AND I MEAN THE ALPHABET LETTERS, NOT THE ROMAN NUMERALS)
  156. ME, MYSELFS, AND I
  157. Making Fun, Having Fun
  158. KNIGHT
  159. CENTER/CENTRE, THEATER/THEATRE
  160. TEAM
  161. CELSIUS, COOL REGARD FOR
  162. SONG LYRICS
  163. VEGETARIAN
  164. SCRABBLE
  165. PIG-ASS
  166. GREASE
  167. STEINBECK, JOHN
  168. WORD (NEGATED)
  169. The Few-Chore! (which of course is how we’ll be spelling/uture in the future)_
  170. CHILDREN
  171. HELL OH HELL
  172. EMOTICONS
  173. TEH
  174. Final Words
  175. THE SECTION ABOUT “FINAL WORDS,” NOT SO FINAL BECAUSE IT’S PART I
  176. THE SECTION ABOUT “FINAL WORDS,”
  177. WHICH (WE ALL HOPE) MIGHT TRULY BE FINAL BECAUSE IT’S PART II
  178. Afterword
  179. Selected Bibliography
  180. Index of Th ings You Don't Know
  181. Index of Things You Don’t Know
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  184. About the Author