I became an English teacher mid-career and published ... Writing books for young people is a complement to my career. My book ideas took off when I began spending time with young people.

The sheer range of topics and ideas is another reason to recommend this book. From 'Words That Don't Exist in English' to 'Words About Nonsense' and words that no one needs to know, there is a ...

It took 200 years for books and literacy to become so common that the spoken langauge began ceding to written language as the authoritative form. By the Victorian era, the official English was ...