What does this mean?Pros & Cons
Cons
Is it remotely interesting or readable, not to me.
Highlights
Quality
It really helps explain many of the quirks of english and the art work is great
You look at it and think its a book for maybe middle or high schoolers with cartoon illustrations on every page and a format fr... Read More
There are pages and pages that explain why words are so irregular in english in an easy to understand way
I am not a big fan of illustrations which often fail to hit the mark but sean o’neill’s cartoons are the perfect accompaniment to the text
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english, first and through. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there may be deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 230 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 10 2024.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This book is for any teacher of english who has ever said english is weird
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Thought the drawings were fun and kept a wordy topic from being dry
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
There are pages and pages that explain why words are so irregular in english in an easy to understand way
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
And now we all know how that came to be
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Then you notice that this is a book from oxford university press which is not exactly focused on the under18 demographic
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
You flip over the author bio and see that arika okrent is dr okrent a phd in psycholinguistics
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
You keep reading and see that there is indeed more than breezy trivia and puns and on page 207 that puns are formally called polysemic humor
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