Author: Martha Brockenbrough
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429985429
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book is for people who experience heartbreak over love notes with subject-verb disagreements...for anyone who's ever considered hanging up the phone on people who pepper their speech with such gems as "irregardless," "expresso," or "disorientated"...and for the earnest souls who wonder if it's "Woe is Me," or "Woe is I," or even "Woe am I." Martha Brockenbrough's Things That Make Us (Sic) is a laugh-out-loud guide to grammar and language, a snarkier American answer to Lynn Truss's runaway success, Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Brockenbrough is the founder of National Grammar Day and SPOGG -- the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar -- and as serious as she is about proper usage, her voice is funny, irreverent, and never condescending. Things That Make Us (Sic) addresses common language stumbling stones such as evil twins, clichés, jargon, and flab, and offers all the spelling tips, hints, and rules that are fit to print. It's also hugely entertaining, with letters to high-profile language abusers, including David Hasselhoff, George W. Bush, and Canada's Maple Leafs [sic], as well as a letter to --and a reply from -- Her Majesty, the Queen of England. Brockenbrough has written a unique compendium combining letters, pop culture references, handy cheat sheets, rants, and historical references that is as helpful as it is hilarious.
Things That Make Us (Sic)
Author: Martha Brockenbrough
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429985429
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book is for people who experience heartbreak over love notes with subject-verb disagreements...for anyone who's ever considered hanging up the phone on people who pepper their speech with such gems as "irregardless," "expresso," or "disorientated"...and for the earnest souls who wonder if it's "Woe is Me," or "Woe is I," or even "Woe am I." Martha Brockenbrough's Things That Make Us (Sic) is a laugh-out-loud guide to grammar and language, a snarkier American answer to Lynn Truss's runaway success, Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Brockenbrough is the founder of National Grammar Day and SPOGG -- the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar -- and as serious as she is about proper usage, her voice is funny, irreverent, and never condescending. Things That Make Us (Sic) addresses common language stumbling stones such as evil twins, clichés, jargon, and flab, and offers all the spelling tips, hints, and rules that are fit to print. It's also hugely entertaining, with letters to high-profile language abusers, including David Hasselhoff, George W. Bush, and Canada's Maple Leafs [sic], as well as a letter to --and a reply from -- Her Majesty, the Queen of England. Brockenbrough has written a unique compendium combining letters, pop culture references, handy cheat sheets, rants, and historical references that is as helpful as it is hilarious.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429985429
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book is for people who experience heartbreak over love notes with subject-verb disagreements...for anyone who's ever considered hanging up the phone on people who pepper their speech with such gems as "irregardless," "expresso," or "disorientated"...and for the earnest souls who wonder if it's "Woe is Me," or "Woe is I," or even "Woe am I." Martha Brockenbrough's Things That Make Us (Sic) is a laugh-out-loud guide to grammar and language, a snarkier American answer to Lynn Truss's runaway success, Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Brockenbrough is the founder of National Grammar Day and SPOGG -- the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar -- and as serious as she is about proper usage, her voice is funny, irreverent, and never condescending. Things That Make Us (Sic) addresses common language stumbling stones such as evil twins, clichés, jargon, and flab, and offers all the spelling tips, hints, and rules that are fit to print. It's also hugely entertaining, with letters to high-profile language abusers, including David Hasselhoff, George W. Bush, and Canada's Maple Leafs [sic], as well as a letter to --and a reply from -- Her Majesty, the Queen of England. Brockenbrough has written a unique compendium combining letters, pop culture references, handy cheat sheets, rants, and historical references that is as helpful as it is hilarious.
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Author: Joshua Cody
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408815206
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Joshua Cody was about to receive his PhD from Columbia University when he was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. He underwent six months of chemotherapy. The treatment failed. Expectations for survival plummeted. After consulting with several oncologists, he embarked on a risky course of high-dose chemotherapy, full body radiation, and an autologous bone marrow transplant. In a fevered, mesmerising voice, slaloming effortlessly between references to Ezra Pound, The Rolling Stones and Beethoven, he charts the struggle: the fury, the tendancy to self-destruction, the ruthless grasping for life, for sensation - he beautiful Ariel who gives him cocaine and a blowjob in a Manhattan restaurant following his first treatment; the detailed Hungarian morphine fantasy complete with bride called Valentina while, in reality, hospital staff are pinning him to his bed. As fresh and beguiling as it is brave and revealing, Joshua Cody has created a book that gives readers a long glimpse into a gorgeous, dark thrashing in the forecourt of death. Literary, hallucinatory and at times uncomfortable reading, [sic] is ultimately a celebration of art, language music and life.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408815206
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Joshua Cody was about to receive his PhD from Columbia University when he was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. He underwent six months of chemotherapy. The treatment failed. Expectations for survival plummeted. After consulting with several oncologists, he embarked on a risky course of high-dose chemotherapy, full body radiation, and an autologous bone marrow transplant. In a fevered, mesmerising voice, slaloming effortlessly between references to Ezra Pound, The Rolling Stones and Beethoven, he charts the struggle: the fury, the tendancy to self-destruction, the ruthless grasping for life, for sensation - he beautiful Ariel who gives him cocaine and a blowjob in a Manhattan restaurant following his first treatment; the detailed Hungarian morphine fantasy complete with bride called Valentina while, in reality, hospital staff are pinning him to his bed. As fresh and beguiling as it is brave and revealing, Joshua Cody has created a book that gives readers a long glimpse into a gorgeous, dark thrashing in the forecourt of death. Literary, hallucinatory and at times uncomfortable reading, [sic] is ultimately a celebration of art, language music and life.
“The” Dramatic Works of Shakspeare [sic].
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Works of Captain Marryatt [sic]. [With a Portrait.]
Author: Frederick Marryat
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Understanding Media, Today
Author: Matteo Ciastellardi
Publisher: Editorial UOC
ISBN: 8493880256
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
Understanding Media, Today. McLuhan in the Era of Convergence Culture
Publisher: Editorial UOC
ISBN: 8493880256
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
Understanding Media, Today. McLuhan in the Era of Convergence Culture
The Student's English Dictionary
Author: John Ogilvie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
The Works of William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare; with Glossorial [sic] Notes, a Sketch of His Life, & an Estimate of His Writings. Newly Arranged and Edited. [With Woodcuts.]
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists (Barlandus-Anianus [sic]-Abstemius-Poggius): with Morals and Reflexions. By Sir Roger L'Estrange. [With a Portrait by Sir G. Kneller.]
Author: Aesop
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description