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Introduction xiii
1 Stiff Upper Lips: Why Can't the British Be More Like Us? 3
2 Grammar Moses: Forget These Commandments 17
3 Bad Boys of English: And Why We Still Love 'Em 44
4 Once Upon a Time: The Whole Nine Yards of Etymology 61
5 Sex Education: Cleaning Up Dirty Words 79
6 Identity Theft: The Great Impostors 93
7 Au Oeuf Is an Oeuf: Fractured French 109
8 Sense and Sensitivity: PC Fact and Fiction 121
9 In High Dungeon: And Other Moat Points 153
10 Brave New Words: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly 174
Afterword: Morocco Bound 197
Notes 205
Bibliography 245
Acknowledgments 249
Index 253
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