Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation

　　Ammon Shea is the author of Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages, along with Depraved English, Insulting English, and The Phone Book. A dictionary collector, he has worked as a consulting editor of American dictionaries at Oxford University Press. He has also contributed to the “On Language” column in Sunday’s New York Times and has reviewed language books for the New York Times Book Review. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.