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Everything you know about English is wrong
ENGLISH
WRONG
ENGLISH
WRONG
SKOSH, TEMPURA
A.D./B.C.
FEMALE
OUTRAGE
THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND
RESOUND
PEN, PENCIL, PENIS, PEST, PESTER (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)
JOURNEYMAN
GARDENIA
MINUSCULE
THROWS AND THROES
CHILE/CHILI/CHILLY
PEANUT
CURMUDGEON
TEETOTALER
DIALOGUE
TRIAGE
Reredundancy Rerevisited
HOI POLLOI
SAHARA
ISLAND-ISLAND
LUKEWARM
GOOD GOOD REDUNDANCY
The Grammar Damner
PLURAL’S
RBI
WE, MYSELF, AND I
A OR AN
CANNOT
The Broken Are Made to Be Rules
E.I.
E.I., PART II (AND THEREFORE, I.E.)
SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT
VOWEL RULES
WHO, WHOM, WHOOMER, WHOOMEST
BETWEEN
CONJUNCTIONS
Acronymania: Specious Histories &
Ignorant Twaddle _
SHIT (BLUSH BLUSH)
POSH
GOLF
FUCK (BLUSH BLUSH)
GORP
NEWS
TIPS
SIC
Notymology, and Other Tales from the Bullshitternet _
BULLSHITTERNETISMS
JIFFY
PUMPERNICKEL
SOS
SNOB
SCAERMLBD WORDS
EPONYMS
BUG, COMPUTER
BARBECUE
KILL
TESTIFY
HONEYMOON
SIRLOIN
FIRED!, YOU’RE
LIES IN THE 1500s
DANCERS OF SPEAKING ENGLISH
Can’t We Even Get Our Own Cliches Right?
CONCISION
GHOTI
GREEK TO ME, IT’S ALL
JESUS CHRIST, ENGLISH SPEAKER
BURNS, ROBERT AND STEINBECK, JOHN
THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING
TWAIN, MARK
TIME, AT THIS POINT IN
DONNE, AND UN-DONNE
CHURCHILL, WINSTON (PART I)
CHURCHILL, WINSTON (PART II)
BRITISH VS. AMERICAN ENGLISH
I Am Aware of the Target I’m Placing on My Back
IMPACT, AS VERB
HOPEFULLY
AIN’T
ITS/IT’S
OVEREXAGGERATION
ANOTHER
DOUBLE NEGATIVES
EATS
TEACH/LEARN
UTILIZE
Mistakes
COULD
THE BIG CHEESE
HANGNAIL
ISLE/ISLAND
BLINDFOLD
BUTTONHOLE
MANO A MANO
REPLENISH
MISTLETOE
CRAYFISH
DORD
You Don’t Speak Latin, and Not a Whole Lot of Greek, Either
ENDING A SENTENCE WITH A PREPOSITION
SPLIT INFINITIVES
SPLIT INFINITIVES, PART II 4 '... ER,
PART 2
SPLIT INFINITIVES, PART 3
ET CETERA
ET CETERA, ETC.
KplTpiA— IS OR ARE?
KUDOS
DEBT
Oh, Stop Being So Cranky, or I’ll Give You Something to Be Cranky About _
COHORT
DECIMATE, PART I
DECIMATE, PART II
THE SAHARA DESERT, PART II
LIGHT/LITE, NIGHT/NITE
FIGURATIVE/LITERAL
DATA
Y’ALL
English Is Not from England, and Other Little Surprises
ENGLISH (THE LANGUAGE)
ADJECTIVE
NONCE-WORD
CAN
HYPHENS, AS OPPOSED TO DASHES
OXYMORON
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICO-
VOLCANOCONIOSIS
ETYMOLOGY
THESAURUS
LINGUISTIC TERMINOLOGY
COMMA FAULTS
Animal Farm
ASININE
PUSSYFOOT
HOGWASH
OINKOINK
SWINE
COWARD
GREYHOUND
Abecedarianisms
QOPH
LETTERS
GRAY/GREY
ET CETERA, ETC., AND SO ON AND SO FORTH AND BLAH BLAH BLAH.
VOWELS, PART I
VOWELS, PART II
VOWELS, PART III
VOWELS, PART IV (AND I MEAN THE ALPHABET LETTERS, NOT THE ROMAN NUMERALS)
ME, MYSELFS, AND I
Making Fun, Having Fun
KNIGHT
CENTER/CENTRE, THEATER/THEATRE
TEAM
CELSIUS, COOL REGARD FOR
SONG LYRICS
VEGETARIAN
SCRABBLE
PIG-ASS
GREASE
STEINBECK, JOHN
WORD (NEGATED)
The Few-Chore! (which of course is how we’ll be spelling/uture in the future)_
CHILDREN
HELL OH HELL
EMOTICONS
TEH
Final Words
THE SECTION ABOUT “FINAL WORDS,” NOT SO FINAL BECAUSE IT’S PART I
THE SECTION ABOUT “FINAL WORDS,”
WHICH (WE ALL HOPE) MIGHT TRULY BE FINAL BECAUSE IT’S PART II
Afterword
Selected Bibliography
Index of Th ings You Don't Know
Index of Things You Don’t Know
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