Full name: Between You and I: A Little Book of Bad English

Author: James Cochrane Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781402203312 1402203314

In the spirit of the bestselling Eats, Shoots & Leaves, this is an informative and highly amusing little book about bad English, full of examples of the incorrect grammar and usage that often pervades modern radio broadcasts, newspaper articles, classroom discussions, and political speeches. As author James Cochrane explains, he does not take issue with the so-called "educated or uneducated" uses of the English language. Between You and I is more concerned with the particular form of English debasement we now have, which might be called the "half-educated" uses of language. Readers may be surprised to find that much of what they thought was "bad" English is in fact perfectly good and that what they have learned to think of as "good" English is sometimes ignorant, dishonest, or just plain stupid. Similar books: The King's English by Kingsley Amis Mind the Gaffe by R. L. Trask The Complete Plain Words by Ernest Gowers The Grouchy Grammarian by Thomas Parrish Common Errors in English Usage by Paul Brians The King's English by H. W. Fowler Usage and Abusage by Eric Partridge The Transitive Vampire by Karen Elizabeth Gordon Woe is I by Patricia T. O'Conner The Handbook of Good English by Edward D. Johnson Modern American Usage by Wilson Follett The Deluxe Transitive Vampire by Karen Elizabeth Gordon Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog by Kitty Burns Florey Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson The Elephants of Style by Bill Walsh Fervent by Priscilla Shirer The Amazing Book is Not on Fire by Dan Howell The Adventurous Eaters Club by Misha Collins The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad