Highly Irregular 1st Edition Arika Okrent

Highly Irregular 1st Edition Arika Okrent – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780197539408,0197539408, 9780197539422, 0197539424

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• ISBN 10: 0197539424

• ISBN 13: 9780197539422

• Author: Arika Okrent

Maybe you’ve been speaking English all your life, or maybe you learned it later on. But whether you use it just well enough to get your daily business done, or you’re an expert with a red pen who never omits a comma or misplaces a modifier, you must have noticed that there are some things about this language that are just weird. Perhaps you’re reading a book and stop to puzzle over absurd spelling rules (Why are there so many ways to say ‘-gh’?), or you hear someone talking and get stuck on an expression (Why do we say “How dare you” but not “How try you”?), or your kid quizzes you on homework (Why is it “eleven and twelve” instead of “oneteen and twoteen”?). Suddenly you ask yourself, “Wait, why do we do it this way?” You think about it, try to explain it, and keep running into walls. It doesn’t conform to logic. It doesn’t work the way you’d expect it to. There doesn’t seem to be any rule at all.

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