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Jim Quinn • 13 Items / 1 Book, 10 Articles, 2 Reviews
American Tongue and Cheek (1981)
by Jim Quinn and Benjamin DeMott
A Populist Guide to Our Language
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    Harsh Words for the Sticklers (Review)
    Phillip Johnson
    American Tongue and Cheek, by Jim Quinn and Benjamin DeMott
    1. American Tongue and Cheek by Jim Quinn and Benjamin DeMott
    In These Times, June 3, 1981, p. 18
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    Books: The Word Police (8 Reviews)
    Hugh Kenner
    What's the Good Word?, by William Safire
    1. What's the Good Word? by William Safire
    2. American Tongue and Cheek by Jim Quinn and Benjamin DeMott
    3. I Always Look Up the Word "Egregious" by Maxwell Nurnberg
    4. The Book of Jargon by Don Ethan Miller
    5. Word Laird by Charlton Laird
    6. Have a Word on Me by Willard R. Espy
    7. Say It My Way by Willard R. Espy
    8. Science Observed by Jeremy Bernstein
    The Harpers Monthly, June 1982, pp. 68-70
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    Making Book on the Language (12 Reviews)
    George Core
    The Second Barnhart Dictionary of New English, by Clarence L. Barnhart
    1. The Second Barnhart Dictionary of New English by Clarence L. Barnhart
    2. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations by Sally Morison Beck and John Bartlett
    3. A Browser's Dictionary by John Ciardi
    4. American Usage and Style by Roy H. Copperud
    5. Eric Partridge in His Own Words by David Crystal and Eric Partridge
    6. Oxford American Dictionary by Eugene H. Ehrlich, Stuart Berg Flexner, and Gorton Carruth, ...
    7. Words Fail Me by Philip Howard
    8. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English by Paul Proctor
    9. A Concise Dictionary of Correct English by B.A. Pythian
    10. American Tongue and Cheek by Jim Quinn and Benjamin DeMott
    11. On Language by William Safire
    12. The Oxford Book of Quotations
    The Hudson Review, Autumn 1981, pp. 475-482