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Acknowledgments ii
Introduction: Confessions of a Verbivore vii
A Celebration of English
Our Abounding English Language 2
Doing a Number on English 4
A Guide to Britspeak, A to Zed 8
This American Language
A Declaration of Language Independence 14
Talking Turkey 17
Ail-American Dialects 20
Slang As It Is Slung 25
A Circus of Words 28
Words from Our Presidents 30
Stamp Out Fadspeak! 33
Like, What's Happening to Our Language? 36
The Glamour of Grammar
Conan the Grammarian 40
Laying Down the Law-Without Lying Down on the Job 47
Sex and the Singular Pronoun 49
An Open Letter to Ann Landers 51
Spellbound
Under a Spell 56
I Before E, Except? 62
Fairly Familiar Phrases 65
Getting the Word Out
Writing Is… 68
How I Write 69
Plane Talk 72
Radio Days 75
English with a Russian Dressing 82
The Collide-O-Scope of Language
How Wise Is Proverbial Wisdom? 88
Words That Never Stray 92
Heads Without Tails 96
Our Uppity English Language 98
On Palindromes 100
The Long and the Short of English 103
The Romance of Words
Toothsome Etymologies 108
Haunted Words 112
My Kids the Poker Players 117
On Paradox 121
A Primer of Political Words 123
The True Meanings of Christmas 127
Literature Lives! 131
It's a Punderful Life
Jest for the Pun of It 136
Pun Your Way to Success 140
Nothing Works for Me 144
A Bilingual Pun is Twice the Fun 147
My Favorite Monsters 151
Answers to Quizzes and Games 154
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