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Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation
Ammon Shea
Perigee Trade
Hardcover
9780399165573
2014
$24.00
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Depraved and Insulting English
Peter Novobatzky and Ammon Shea
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Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
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Modern Man in the Making
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