Do you cringe when a talking head pronounces niche as NITCH? Do you get bent out of shape when your teenager begins a sentence with and, or says octopuses instead of octopi ? Do you think British spellings are more civilised than the American versions? Would you bet the bank that jeep got its start as a military term and SOS as an acronym for Save Our Ship ? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you re myth-informed. Go stand in the corner and read this book!
In Origins of the Specious, word mavens Patricia T. O Conner and Stewart Kellerman explode the misconceptions that have led generations of language lovers astray. They reveal why some of grammar s best-known rules aren t and never were rules at all. They explain how Brits and Yanks wound up speaking the same language so differently, and why British English isn t necessarily purer. This playfully witty yet rigorously researched book sets the record straight about bogus word origins, politically correct fictions, phony fran ais, fake acronyms, and more. English is an endlessly entertaining, ever-changing language, and yesterday s.
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