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OED=Oxford English Dictionary AmE=American English BrE=British EnglishBen Yagoda's Books
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- "Memoir: A History"
- "The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism"
- "The B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song"
- "The Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing"
- "When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better and/or Worse"
- "Will Rogers: A Biography"
- "You Need to Read This: The Death of the Imperative Mode, the Rise of the American Glottal Stop, the Bizarre Popularity of "Amongst," and Other Cuckoo Things That Have Happened to the English Language"
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