I Read Many Things

Tag: English

  • The Story of English, by Robert McCrum, Robert MacNeil & William Cran

    All languages are fascinating. That much is quite obvious for anyone who has ever stopped and thought about it for a second. With a relatively small quantity of sounds – 44 in English, 36 in French – or small curvy lines on a piece of paper (or screen, in this case), we can communicate anything.…

  • Anguished English, by Richard Lederer

    Here’s a really silly book about the uses and misuses of the English language. It’s less of a book written by the author and more a compilation of some of the wildest and funniest mistakes, errors, misappropriations and other uses of the English language. First chapter is mostly about school and was, for me at…