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The Leonard Lopate Show

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The Leonard Lopate Show

Word Maven Patricia T. O’Conner

Word maven Patricia T. O’Conner answers questions about the confounding English language and talks about ungrammatical song lyrics. An updated and expanded third edition of her book, Woe is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English, has recently been published in paperback, and Origins of the Specious, written with Stewart Kellerman, was also recently issued in paperback.

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