Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies, June Casagrande
Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies, June Casagrande
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Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies
A Guide To Language For Fun & Spite

Author: June Casagrande

Narrator: Shelly Frasier

Unabridged: 5 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/01/2006


Synopsis

Here's some good news for everyone who's ever been bullied into believing they can't speak their own language: The grammar snobs are bluffing. Half the "rules" they use to humiliate others are really just judgment calls and the rest they don't even understand themselves. Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies is a laugh-out-loud funny collection of anecdotes and essays on grammar and punctuation, as well as hilarious critiques of the self-appointed language experts.

In this collection of hilarious anecdotes and essays, June Casagrande delivers practical language lessons not found anywhere else, demystifying the subject and taking it back from the snobs.

"Casagrande brings a lively approach to her overview of basic grammar."—Booklist

" . . . Fraser's reading is robust and articulate, and it fully captures Casagrande's sense of humor and witty repartee. Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies is an excellent and entertaining way of learning, or simply reviewing, the fundamentals of English grammar and punctuation."—Reviewed by Auggie Moore, Large Print Reviews

Please note: This is a historical recording. The audio quality represents the technology of the time when it was produced.

About June Casagrande

June Casagrande writes a popular and very humorous "A Word, Please" grammar column for five Los Angeles Times Community News papers. She has authored over 900 articles for various newspapers and magazines and has four years of improvisational comedy training, including three with the famed L.A.-based group the Groundlings.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Riku on April 28, 2014

For Whom the Snob Trolls Grammar snobs who like to bully people have done an incredible job of alienating the rest of us from even wanting to know stuff like how to use the word “whom.” But there’s a good reason to learn. So good that it’s worth overcoming the visceral aversion to the word that t......more

Goodreads review by Linda on March 13, 2017

LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this little gem of a book!!! Having been a proofreader in my "previous life," sending someone's masterpiece back to them all marked up created a LOT of hostility in the workplace! I tried using a pink pen to soften the rejection, but no one was comforted by the color. Eventually,......more

Goodreads review by Dona's on June 03, 2022

Hello my fellow writers and creative types! I've devoted my Instagram feed to the review of scary and spooky materials for the Halloween Season. And what's more terrifying than grammar and punctuation, am I right? Besides, look at that cover... nightmarish! So let's go. Here's what I like and don't......more

Goodreads review by Deborah on June 14, 2014

June Casagrande is my personal deity. You should know that before you read the rest of this review (or while deciding whether or not to do so). She's funny, she's smart, and she knows when to take grammar seriously and when to tell it to get over itself, already. I could quote this book like mad -- an......more

Goodreads review by Tanu on June 23, 2016

It was a fun book, if a bit confusing at times.......more