This Expanded Edition of The Evasion-English Dictionary comprises 50+ entries on common evasions and slang including "like," "whatever," "I\'m sorry if," "actually," "so," "sorry" (sorry-not-sorry), "the relationship," and "if." Erin McKean: "If your bedside table pile includes Bierce and Mencken, you\'ll want to add this book to the stack.
It\'s a pleasurable skewering of evasive language (even when it\'s your evasions that are the ones, like, being skew.
This Expanded Edition of The Evasion-English Dictionary comprises 50+ entries on common evasions and slang including "like," "whatever," "I\'m sorry if," "actually," "so," "sorry" (sorry-not-sorry), "the relationship," and "if." Erin McKean: "If your bedside table pile includes Bierce and Mencken, you\'ll want to add this book to the stack