Scarcely English
An A to Z of Assaults On Our Language
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- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
25 November 2025
Summary
An A-Z of terrible English by the Telegraph’s former master grammarian
The English language has evolved throughout its history, and usually for good reasons. However, in recent years, egged on by social media and the ubiquity and velocity of the internet, it has been subject to some grave assaults. There appear no longer to be any rules, in an era when, thanks to the web (another word to have changed its meaning) everyone can be a published author, completely unedited and unregulated.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804940136 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1804940135 |
| Author: | Simon Heffer |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Penguin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 25 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 196g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 17mm |
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About The Author
Simon Heffer
Simon Heffer was born in 1960. He read English at Cambridge and took a PhD in modern history at that university. His previous books include- Moral Desperado- A Life of Thomas Carlyle, Like the Roman- The Life of Enoch Powell, Power and Place- The Political Consequences of King Edward VII, Nor Shall My Sword- The Reinvention of England, Vaughan Williams, Strictly English, A Short History of Power, Simply English and High Minds- The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain. In a thirty-year career in Fleet Street, he has held senior editorial positions on The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator, and is now a columnist for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.
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