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Damn English!
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781685136109
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
Published: Jun 5 2025
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book will have a quite broad audience... Gratifying level of surprises and loving twists on usage... Nice range of humor, from slapstick to self-reflective. -Sue Ducharme, TextWorks
Welcome to the latest word on atrocious English, from wierd - er, weird - spelling to idiotomatic expressions to modest proposals for change, wherein we tackle such pressing contemporary English language issues as:
- Did sh*t ever actually hit a fan?
- Once and for all, who's the smartest: brain surgeons or rocket scientists?
- Which is the more persuasive: having someone over a barrel or by the balls?
- What difference is there, if any, between an old coot, an old fogey and an old geezer - and while we're on the subject, do we still need to employ the adjective old?
- When is it wiser to go with I don't give a rat's a*s over I don't give a flying f*ck?
- Taken together, are No way Jose and Yesiree Bob racist?
- What's the point of saying It is what it is when in all of human history it's never once happened that something is what it isn't?
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