Anguished English
by Richard Lederer | 
English as a Second F*cking Language
by Sterling Johnson | 
The American Language
by H. L. Mencken | 
The Fight for English
by David Crystal |
More Weird and Wonderful Words
by Erin McKean |
Mind the Gaffe
by R. L. Trask |
By Hook or By Crook
by David Crystal | 
The Mother Tongue
by Bill Bryson | 
Port Out, Starboard Home
by Michael Quinion |
The roots of English
by Robert Claiborne |
Our Marvelous Native Tongue
by Robert Claiborne | 
The Play of Words
by Richard Lederer |
Blooming English
by Kate Burridge |
The Story of English
by Robert McCrum |
A History of the English Language
by Albert C. Baugh | 
Modern Romance
by Aziz Ansari | 
The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
by Erma Bombeck | 
The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw
by Patrick F. McManus | 
The New Joys of Yiddish
by Leo Rosten | 
Bad Cat
by Jim Edgar |
In what other language, asks Lederer, do people drive on a parkway and park in a driveway, and your nose can run and your feet can smell? In CRAZY ENGLISH, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of our language, discovering the names for phobias you didn't know you could have, the longest words in our dictionaries, and the shortest sentence containing every letter in the alphabet. You'll take a bird's-eye view of our beastly language, feast on a banquet of mushrooming food metaphors, and meet the self-reflecting Doctor Rotcod, destined to speak only in palindromes.