[PDF.27dw] The Pedant's Revolt: Why Most Things You Think Are Right Are Wrong

The Pedant's Revolt: Why Most Things You Think Are Right Are Wrong

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 | #2709901 in Books |  2012-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.70 x.60 x5.10l,.35 | File type: PDF | 192 pages

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||9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| Short book of modest interest|By Jon Hunt|In recent years it seems that books about language and trivia have become the purveyance of female British authors. There was Lynne Truss and her wonderful "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" and more recently "Rules, Britannia", by Toni Summers Hargis. Added to that we now have a cousin of those books by Andrea Barham called "The Pedant's Revolt",|From Publishers Weekly|Barham, a technical writer with four previous titles published in the UK, here debunks the tenacious pieces of folk wisdom that remain rooted in our collective consciousness: Ostriches, it turns out, do not bury their heads in the sand, an

Irreverent, smart, and obscenely entertaining, this book shatters the myths, misconceptions, fallacies, and falsehoods about all the things people think they know 

Lead pencils can give you lead poisoning . . .

Newton discovered gravity when an apple fell on his head . . .

One do...

You easily download any file type for your device.The Pedant's Revolt: Why Most Things You Think Are Right Are Wrong   |  Andrea Barham. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.

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