Have You Eaten Grandma?

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Pedantic about punctuation or scrupulous about spelling? You’ll love this hilarious and definitive guide to 21st century language from grammar-guru Gyles Brandreth. ‘Brilliant, clear, entertaining, very funny and often outright silly. Brandreth excels . . . in all his linguistic joie de vivre’ Guardian__________
Why, like, does everyone keep saying ‘like’? Why do apostrophe’s keep turning up in the wrong place? Why do we get confused when using foreign phrases – and vice versa?Is it ‘may be’ or ‘maybe’? Should it be ‘past’ or ‘passed’? Is it ‘referenda’ or ‘referendums’? FFS, what’s happening to our language!?Our language is changing, literacy levels are dwindling and our grasp of grammar is at crisis point, so you wouldn’t be alone in thinking WTF! But do not despair, Have You Eaten Grandma? is here: Gyles Brandreth’s definitive (and hilarious) guide to punctuation, spelling, and good English for the twenty-first century.
Without hesitation or repetition (and just a touch of deviation) Gyles, the Just A Minute regular and self-confessed grammar guru, skewers the linguistic horrors of our time, tells us where we’ve been going wrong (and why), and reveals his tips and tricks to ensure that, in future, we make fewer (rather than ‘less’) mistakes. End of.
(Is ‘End of’ alright? Is ‘alright’ all right? You’ll find out right here . . . )
‘Best thing ever, laugh-a-lot, spanning everything. Great book, I’m loving this’ Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2 Best thing ever, laugh-a-lot, spanning everything. Great book, I’m loving this —Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2Brilliant, clear, entertaining, very funny and often outright silly. Brandreth excels . . . in all his linguistic joie de vivre and amusing self-awareness—GuardianA witty and well-informed guide to the vagaries of English grammar. Heed his words; you won’t regret it —Country & Town House, (Best Books to Go Under the Christmas Tree)Whether you are obsessed with getting grammar right, baffled by grammar or (like us) just in love with words, you are going to love this. A hilarious and definitive guide to 21st-century language—Newcastle Evening ChronicleAn informal guide to punctuation, spelling and good English for the twenty-first century—Strong WordsThis is a grammar guide that only Gyles Brandreth could write! Full of humour throughout, this is his definitive guide to punctuation, spelling and good English for the twenty-first century —Stratford-Upon-Avon HeraldThe wordsmith’s wordsmith guides us through the delights of the English language—Daily Mail Gyles Brandreth is a writer, broadcaster, veteran of Just A Minute, QI and The One Show, former MP and Government Whip, now Chancellor of the University of Chester and founder of the ‘Poetry Together’ project bringing schoolchildren and older people together to learn poetry by heart. His many books include the best-selling poetry anthology, Dancing by the Light of the Moon, and the international best-seller about spelling and punctuation, Have You Eaten Grandma? With Susie Dent, the lexicographer from Countdown, he co-hosts the award-winning podcast, Something Rhymes With Purple. With Dame Sheila Hancock he presents Great Canal Journeys on Channel 4. With Dame Maureen Lipman he is a regular on Celebrity Gogglebox.
Gyles is married to writer and publisher Michèle Brown and has three children, seven grandchildren, and lives in London with his wife, his jumpers, and Nala, the neighbour’s cat. GB

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