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Tables That Eat Grass and Crows That Fly Upside Down

In the book To Kill a Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism by Debashish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane, I came across this sentence...

Diseases Named after Patients

This passionately written book (The Invention of Surgery by David Schneider) describes the giant strides medicine has made since its...

The Mainstreaming of the Word "Shit" in Personal Transformation Parlance

The book I was editing was about personal transformation for corporate managers. The author was a well-known coach. The language was so...

Incident in an Editing Office

On a hot afternoon many years ago, a trainee editor walked in with furrowed brow and deposited the following offending sentence in my...

The Bookseller Who Cannot Read

This is a wonderful story from the People's Archive of Rural India about a bookseller who cannot read. Selling books is not just a trade...

The Book That Wrote Me a Letter

This email from Better World Books is the most creative letter I've ever received. I was smiling from ear to ear by the time I got to the...

Indian and British English: A Handbook of Usage and Pronunciation

In a previous post (on researcher name coincidences), I mentioned Indian and British English: A Handbook of Usage and Pronunciation by...

Researcher Name Coincidence

Humor and academia are an unlikely combination, and I didn't think they could coexist until I read Academia Obscura: The Hidden Silly...

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