Title: Was this written by a nutcase?
Product review: I agree with the other criticisms here, but I just have to add that half-way through this book, I found myself reading passages aloud to my mother (an old English teacher who was visiting for the weekend), just because they were so jaw-droppingly strange. We were in hysterics, and started making up our own word entries in the West style (usually mildly scatological and totally arbitrary). I can only imagine what the author must be like at parties.... For a fun but educational read about our wonderful language, try Bill Bryson's "Mother Tongue" or "Made in America", or Bill Walsh's "Lapsing into a Comma".
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