Have You Eaten Grandma?

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It happens only very rarely here: I counted a couple of mis-identified Americanisms and two unfortunate dangling participles.

With Susie Dent, the lexicographer from Countdown, he co-hosts the award-winning podcast, Something Rhymes with Purple. Or, the Life-Saving Importance of Correct Punctuation, Grammar, and Good English is published by Michael Joseph. We're losing important cultural values due to misuse of the language, and technology is usually the one to blame for this. Gyles presents Great Canal Journeys on Channel 4 with Dame Sheila Hancock and regularly appears on Celebrity Gogglebox with Dame Maureen Lipman.Without hesitation or repetition (and just a touch of deviation) Gyles, the Just A Minuteregular and self-confessed grammar guru, skewers the linguistic horrors of our time, tells us where we've been going wrong (and why), and reveals his tips and tricks to ensure that, in future, we make fewer (rather than 'less') mistakes. The problem with the good parts in this book are that you have to wade through the garbage to get to them. He is sound, too, on dashes and apostrophes; on the difference between “may” and “might”; on how to form unusual plurals (“lord lieutenants”, “attorneys general”). People with better English are healthier and live longer because they can understand and communicate better with doctors, nurses and caregivers. Spread below you, you will see old buildings that have stood the test of time and have a beauty and grandeur that lift the spirit.

This episode they are joined by Shakespearean actor and producer Ben Crystal, Jill Taylor, editorial director at Penguin Books, and Mark Grist, Shetland's leading - and only - battle-rapper.

English explained easy and fun, specially parts of English usage that sometimes aren’t covered in classes, or teachers just don’t mention. One schoolboy on one bus in one city on one day and in one sentence is given as evidence that like “has become the go-to linguistic filler of our times”. Another handbook for those who love precision in language and who are not going gentle into that good night. And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Our language is changing, literary levels are declining, and our grasp of grammar is at a crisis point.

He gets some things correct, but then says that English has a future tense (it doesn’t) and that aspect is a tense (it isn’t).Gyles Brandreth not only provides a lot of information on the English language, he does so in a very accessible manner, enticing the reader with his funny, and often cheeky, voice. You would figure someone who claims to care about language so much would – oh, I don’t know – read a book about the study of language!

The guide does cover some ground with regard to some key areas of grammar (punctuation, commas, confused words, etc. Coming up we have “nouns,” “verbs,” “adjectives,” “adverbs,” “participles” (words formed from verbs, like “going” and “gone”), “adjectival compounds” (aaargh! No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” (the longest new word to gain worldwide currency in my lifetime) was popularized by the 1964 film Mary Poppins. But I want to point out that right off the bat I had a feeling that this book would not address the topic of language and power.Our language is changing, literacy levels are dwindling and our grasp of grammar is at crisis point, so you wouldn't be alone in thinking WTF! While In The Past It Was Used More As A Way To Make Furniture And Other Things That You Needed In The Home, It Is Now Something.