More Words to the Wise - 7467

Since the year 2001, WTCM-AM 580, a talk radio station in Traverse City, Michigan, has been carrying Michael Sheehan s radio program called Words to the Wise. Along with co-host Ron Jolly, he fields questions about the English language. The topics include word and phrase origins, points of grammar and punctuation, pet peeves, pronunciation, funny gaffes in advertising and broadcasting, writing tips, and anything else remotely connected to our living, lissome language. The questions contained in this volume were called in during the show or later emailed to Sheehan during the past four years. They are real questions asked by real people, some of them confused by our mother tongue, some of them bemused by its jabs and dekes. As in the companion volumes written for Arbutus Press, the questions and answers have been edited for clarity and brevity, but the essence of the original interchanges has been preserved. This is not a stuffy grammar book. Entertainment is on a par with instruction when you are in public media, but be assured that the answers are based on twenty-nine years of teaching experience, most of them at the community college level. If you love language, you will find questions in this book that you very well might have asked.
ASIN: 193392618X
VSKU: 31UE34004BSH_ns
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Michael J. Sheehan
Binding: Paperback