Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies.pdf

GRAMMAR

SNOBS

Are

Great Big

MEANIES

A Guide to Language

for Fun and Spite

June Casagrande

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For Ted

A Note

from the Author

I’d like to thank Bryan Garner, Robert Hartwell Fiske, James

Kilpatrick, Richard Lederer, Laurie Rozakis, Lynne Truss,

William Saﬁre, Bill Walsh, all the readers of my column who

earned mention here, and all the editors of the Associated Press

Stylebook , the Chicago Manual ofStyle , and the Oxford English

Grammar for being such great sports. Like, wow, do these peo-

ple have an awesome sense of humor or what? Well, actually

I’m writing my thank-yous before any of them have even had a

chance to read this book. But I just know that I’m not going to

catch any of them hiding in the bushes outside my house with

a carton of rotten eggs, or worse.

So let’s hear it for the people who, as I poke fun at them,

just laugh in the spirit in which the jabs were written—the

people who never lose sight of the fact that we’re all on the

same team of helping others better use the language. You

guys rock!

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