Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language
by Kellerman, Stewart
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Patricia T. O’Conner, a former editor at The New York Times Book Review , has written four books on language and writing–the bestselling Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English; Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know About Writing; Woe Is I Jr.: The Younger Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English; and You Send Me: Getting It Right When You Write Online. Stewart Kellerman has been an editor at The New York Times and a foreign correspondent for UPI in Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. He co-authored You Send Me with his wife, Patricia T. O’Conner, and he runs their website and blog at grammarphobia.com. They live in rural Connecticut. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language
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- Kellerman, Stewart
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- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
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- ISBN 10
- 0812978102
- ISBN 13
- 9780812978100
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- Random House Publishing Group
- This edition first published
- 2010-08-24
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