Dictionary Of Disagreeable English
Subtitle: A Curmudgeon's Compendium of Excruciatingly Correct Grammar
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
Published: October 22, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781582973135
Subjects: Literary reference works; Usage guides; Usage; Grammar; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Reference; Dictionaries - General; English language; Dictionaries
First sentence: The slang-filled eleventh edition of "America's Best-Selling Dictionary," Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Frederick C. Mish, editor in chief), does as much as, if not more than, the famously derided Webster's Third International Dictionary to discourage people from taking lexicographers seriously.