A. Parody Bücher

Here is the long-awaited antidote to those pedants out there whonbsp;insist on pointing outnbsp;every singlenbsp;misuse of both written and spoken English.nbsp;The English language is an ever-changing and complex thing, and for every English language "stickler" who nevernbsp;misspeaks there is somebody who is bamboozled and befuddled by grammatical trapdoors, puzzled bynbsp;punctuation, and who spells words with diabolical inaccuracy.nbsp;Featuring highlights such asnbsp;ambiguous ads (Why not have the kids shot for Easter, or have a family portrait taken?),dangling modifiers(She slipped on the ice and apparently her legs went in separate directions in early December.),and senseless statements(With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go.),this humorous guidenbsp;brings to lightnbsp;the prevalence of absent apostrophes, ghastly grammar, suspect sentences, rambling repetitiveness, insane instructions, and quirky quotations in society today.

"A Shite History of Nearly Everything" is a riotously light-hearted look at world history, from the bestselling author of "Shite's Unoriginal Miscellany" and "Eats, Shites & Crap English and How to Use it." Eccentrically - indeed, irresponsibly - compiled, packed with bizarre ideas, hopeless theories, impossible dreams, preposterous statements, loony prophecies, mad scientists, demented technicians, useless inventions, and much of the often deranged history of our planet, A Shite History of Nearly Everything doesn't just challenge our view of the history of the world; it challenges our very sanity. Of Hungarian extraction, Antal Parody (originally Parodi) fled to Britain from either Buda or Pest -sources differ- in the late 1940s, following the collapse of the so-called "Mashed-Potato Revolution." Described as a genius by the UK trade magazine "Bookseller," he is the author of two previous bestsellers.

Eats, Shites and Leaves is a celebration of all things shite about the misuse of English, highlighting the prevalence of absent apostrophes, ghastly grammar, suspect sentences, rambling repetitiveness, commentators' claptrap, tortuous tautologies, insane instructions, and quirky quotations in society today.