عنوان

Grammar snobs are great big meanies :

(Number (ISBN

0143036831

(Number (ISBN

9780143036838

Number

b775483

Title Proper

Grammar snobs are great big meanies :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a guide to language for fun and spite /

First Statement of Responsibility

by June Casagrande.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Penguin Books,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2006.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxi, 199 pages ;

Dimensions

18 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-199).

Text of Note

Grammar snobs make good prison brides -- Snob for all seasons -- For whom the snob trolls -- Passing the Simpsons test -- To boldly blow -- Sexy mistake -- Snobbery up with which you should not put -- Is that a dangler in your memo or are you just glad to see me? -- An open letter to someone who knows I once tried to be a grammar snob but failed -- Anarchy rules -- Comma denominator -- Semicolonoscopy -- O.C., where the 80's never die -- Go ahead, make up your own words -- Hyphens, life-sucking, mom-and-apple-pie-hating, mime-loving, nerd-fight-inciting daggers of the damned -- I'll take "I feel like a moron" for $200, Alex -- Chapter dedicated to those other delights of punctuation -- Copulative conjunctions, hot stuff for the truly desperate -- R U uptite? -- Literally schmiterally -- How to drop out of high school in the ninth grade and still make big bucks telling people how to use good grammar.

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Well, well, aren't you good? -- Fodder for those mothers -- I wish I were Batgirl -- Mommy's all wrong, daddy's all wrong -- Kids are all wrong -- How to impress Brad Pitt -- And you too can begin sentences with "and," "so," "but," and "because" -- Your bass is not Jesus -- Silence of the linguists -- I'm writing this while naked -- I wish I may, I wish I might for once in my life get this one right -- Backyard barbecue in the back yard, a front-yard barbecue in the front yard -- How to never, ever offend anyone with inadvertently sexist or racist language -- Complete sentences? optional! -- It's/its a classroom ditz -- Eight, nine, 10, 11 -- If at first you don't irk a snob, try and try again -- Express lane of pain -- Agree to dis a meanie -- Emperor's new clause -- Satan's vocabulary -- You really can look it up.

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A compilation of witty anecdotes and trenchant essays on the mysteries of grammar and punctuation takes a poke at self-appointed language experts as it discusses such topics as predicate nominatives, colons and semicolons, quotation marks, prepositions, and hyphens.

English language-- Usage, Humor.

English language-- Usage.

English language-- Usage.

Sprachgebrauch

Englisch.

7

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Casagrande, June.

Date of Transaction

20201203080325.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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