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The Fight for English : How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left

David Crystal
Hardcover - $30.95

The story of battles--both past and present--surrounding English language usage, The Fight for English explores why millions of people feel linguistically inferior. Unhappy with the "zero tolerance" approach to punctuation offered by Lynn Truss's Eat ...

The Fight for English : How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left

David Crystal
Paperback - $18.95

Weve all been taught that this sentence--"Driving in from the airport, the flags flapped furiously"--is wrong, wrong, wrong. But is it, asks David Crystal. Everyone knows what this sentence means. No one actually thinks that the flags were driving th ...