Originally published as two distinct collections, "Depraved and Insulting English" brings to light the language's most offensive and obscene words--words that have fallen out of today's lexicon but will no doubt delight, amuse, and in some cases prove surprisingly useful. Who hasn't searched for the[...]
The author of "Reading the OED" presents an eye-opening look at language "mistakes" and how they came to be accepted as correct--or not.
English is a glorious mess of a language, cobbled together from a wide variety of sources and syntaxes, and changing over time with popular usage. Many of the[...]