Download Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation AudioBook Free
British is a glorious clutter of a language, cobbled collectively from a wide variety of sources and syntaxes, and changing over time with popular use. Many of the words and usages we adopt as standard and correct today were at first considered slang, impolite, or simply plain incorrect. Whether you consider yourself a stickler, a nitpicker, or a rule-breaker in the know, Bad British is sure to enlighten, enrage, as well as perhaps even inspire. Filled with historic and contemporary illustrations, the audiobook chronicles the long and engaging history of language errors, and features some of our most usual words and phrases, including decimate, hopefully, enormity, that vs. which, enervate vs. energize, bemuse vs. amuse, actually vs. figuratively, ain't, irregardless, socialist, OMG, and stupider. Lively, funny, and unusual, this is an audiobook that will negotiate arguments among term lovers-and it's sure to begin a few, too.
