Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite

A Compilation Of Witty Anecdotes And Trenchant Essays On The Mysteries Of Grammar And Punctuation Takes A Poke At Self-appointed Language Experts As It Discusses Such Topics As Predicate Nominatives, Colons And Semicolons, Quotation Marks, Prepositions, And Hyphens. Grammar Snobs Make Good Prison Brides -- Snob For All Seasons -- For Whom The Snob Trolls -- Passing The Simpsons Test -- To Boldly Blow -- Sexy Mistake -- Snobbery Up With Which You Should Not Put -- Is That A Dangler In Your Memo Or Are You Just Glad To See Me? -- An Open Letter To Someone Who Knows I Once Tried To Be A Grammar Snob But Failed -- Anarchy Rules -- Comma Denominator -- Semicolonoscopy -- O.c., Where The 80's Never Die -- Go Ahead, Make Up Your Own Words -- Hyphens, Life-sucking, Mom-and-apple-pie-hating, Mime-loving, Nerd-fight-inciting Daggers Of The Damned -- I'll Take I Feel Like A Moron For $200, Alex -- Chapter Dedicated To Those Other Delights Of Punctuation -- Copulative Conjunctions, Hot Stuff For The Truly Desperate -- R U Uptite? -- Literally Schmiterally -- How To Drop Out Of High School In The Ninth Grade And Still Make Big Bucks Telling People How To Use Good Grammar. Well, Well, Aren't You Good? -- Fodder For Those Mothers -- I Wish I Were Batgirl -- Mommy's All Wrong, Daddy's All Wrong -- Kids Are All Wrong -- How To Impress Brad Pitt -- And You Too Can Begin Sentences With And, So, But, And Because -- Your Bass Is Not Jesus -- Silence Of The Linguists -- I'm Writing This While Naked -- I Wish I May, I Wish I Might For Once In My Life Get This One Right -- Backyard Barbecue In The Back Yard, A Front-yard Barbecue In The Front Yard -- How To Never, Ever Offend Anyone With Inadvertently Sexist Or Racist Language -- Complete Sentences? Optional! -- It's/its A Classroom Ditz -- Eight, Nine, 10, 11 -- If At First You Don't Irk A Snob, Try And Try Again -- Express Lane Of Pain -- Agree To Dis A Meanie -- Emperor's New Clause -- Satan's Vocabulary -- You Really Can Look It Up. June Casagrande. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [197]-199).