Scarcely English by Simon Heffer
Scarcely English by Simon Heffer
SKU: 9781804940136 • Barcode: 9781804940136

Scarcely English

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Book information

  • Format: Paperback
  • Main subject: Humour
  • Genre / subject: Humour
  • Author: Simon Heffer
  • Audience: Adults

About the book

Scarcely English by Simon Heffer is a language humour book for adult readers.

The English language has evolved throughout its history, and usually for good reasons. However, in recent years, egged on by social media and the ubiquity and velocity of the internet, it has been subject to some grave assaults. There appear no longer to be any rules, in an era when, thanks to the web (another word to have changed its meaning) everyone can be a published author, completely unedited and unregulated.

This often has dire consequences for the English tongue. Simon Heffer's A to Z runs though a whole litany of common confusions ('flaunt' and 'flout', 'imply' and 'infer', 'uninterested' and 'disinterested'), unidiomatic English ('fed up of', 'focus around', the use of 'impacted' in such construction as 'the loss impacted him badly'), and lazy expressions (these days every extended activity is an '-athon', every scandal is a 'Something-gate').

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