English as She is Wrote
Anonymous
Read by TriciaG
"...Showing Curious ways in which the English Language may be made to convey Ideas or obscure them." A collection of unintentionally humorous uses of the English language. Sections of the work: How she is wrote by the Inaccurate, By Advertisers and on Sign-boards, For Epitaphs, By Correspondents, By the Effusive, How she can be oddly wrote, and By the Untutored. (Summary by TriciaG) (1 hr 23 min)
Chapters
Prefatory & the Inaccurate | 13:52 | Read by TriciaG |
Advertisers & Epitaphs | 18:47 | Read by TriciaG |
Correspondents & the Effusive | 28:52 | Read by TriciaG |
'How she can be oddly wrote' & the Untutored | 21:49 | Read by TriciaG |
Reviews
great book made better by TriciaG
Uncle Ell Weisgal
I thought TriciaG did a great job reading this book. sometimes I wonder if people know that the speed can be controlled. sometimes that makes all the difference in the world.
I feel slightly insulted
A LibriVox Listener
I'm not sure i've ever heard anyone sound as patronising as the reader of this book.
A good collection, but not so easy on the ears
MrsGC
TriciaG'sG does not make many of these quotations as individual as needed, to make the book easier to follow, but she does extremely well with the complex pun poems, the illiterate requests for educational material, and the epitaphs. This collection of grammatical landmines made me smile, and I've even shared some of them with my teenagers. March 2018.
A LibriVox Listener
why are you inflicting this bizarre inflection on us? have you not heard humans speaking? they don't that. stop. not the first book this reader has rendered unusable.
nothing comparable to libribox
hussein
I love it.
short stuff
Absolutely ridiculous. Don't bother w this one.