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Literally, the Best Language Book Ever Annoying Words and Abused Phrases You Should Never Use Again

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ISBN-10: 0399534237

ISBN-13: 9780399534232

Edition: 2008

Authors: Paul Yeager

List price: $24.00
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A wry and engaging look at trite, trendy, grammatically incorrect, inane, outdated, and lazy uses of words, phrases, and expressions. By turns gleefully precise and happily contrarian, this is a highly opinionated guide to better communication. In Literally, the Best Language Book Ever, author Paul Yeager attacks with a linguistic scalpel the illogical expressions and misappropriated meanings that are so commonplace and annoying in everyday conversation. Identifying hundreds of common language miscues, Yeager provides an astute look at the world of words and how we abuse them every day. For the grammar snobs looking for any port in a storm of subpar syntax, or the self-confessed rubes…    
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Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/6/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.51" wide x 7.56" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.396

Paul Yeageris a managing editor and a freelance writer. As a child, he was annoyed when reading, writing, and arithmetic were referred to as the Three Rs, and he hasnt changed a bit over the years.