WHOOP’S APOSTROPHE...!


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Hi again, Hope that you’ve enjoyed my “WHOOP’S APOSTROPHE...!” #1, because here’s #2...another 100 crazy photographs of mad apostrophe (and spelling) errors from around the globe, fae Bonnie Scotland all the way ‘Doon Under’ to Australia! Funny they are...horrid also, as the poor English teacher in me captures the error...but with a fair-sized (and apostrophe-shaped) lump in my throat! Enjoy! THE HUMOUR IS IN THE HORROR! MLP June 2013 P.S. Read Matt Engels’ “I demand an end to the apostrophe” piece in ‘The Guardian’ 6/6/2000 - enjoy, laugh; smile at the “Greengrocers’ Apostrophe” bit...but disagree! Please! ? (Read any of MLP’s own ‘Sci-fi’ fiction in his ongoing “Boyle-Breath” Series yet? Number 3, “BOYLE-BREATH BEGINS BACK at the END” is out very soon! (“Boyle-Breath” and “Boyle-Breath Breathes” its sequel, lie smelling in wait for you now at authorhouse.com). mlp.com for more info




Whoop’S Apostrophe . . . ! #7


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They thought it was all over. It is now! This is the last one, seriously! Every one from now on a daily basis but only via Twitter and Facebook! Got an English teacher in your family or who you like? Buy this (or Whoops Apostrophe . . . ! #16) via [email protected]. And all of this just so as you know when and where to put it in and when and where not to! Im sure all your English teachers said, If in doubt, leave it out! BUY! ENJOY! LAUGH! SHOW! TELL! SHARE! Buy them for DOCTORS and DENTISTS (for their Waiting Rooms!) and Hospitals (Waiting Areas and for Patients). For Planes, Trains, and Automobiles! For your Facilities and Bathrooms at home! Buy them for your Local Caf or Snack Bar! For your Grandparents theyll remember what they are!! Care Homes! Hotel Foyers! (Perfectly imperfect punctuationphotos by Peter Perfect)




Whoop’S Apostrophe . . . ! #6


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I said Id stopped, but here it is#6! Such a horrible life, isnt it? Walking by these word errors everywhere! Well, trying to walk/drive past them for me! I cant stop spotting them, though, and still I get off the bus / walk back / or drive to photograph them, record them for posterity. No one cares anymore, do they?! Bar me! Surely some governmental edict has to be passed to make sure that such horrors are against the law. Common law should deal with these oh-so-common mistakes! Give me the job (Whoops Apostrophe Terminator?) of going into these shops and reading the riot act? Every time that I have mentioned an error, I talk to people who just dont care and also look at me as if I were crazy! Maybe I am. Mistakes that I have been able to fix on my own are far too few. I have done it the odd time, on the sly, via chalk or by me rubbing out the mistaken parts of Ap. / Sp. errors (Buy WA #1#6). Sometimes they get it right even on their ownthere is one example inside! This is the last one. Enjoy!




Super Period Saves the Day!


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Explains what a period is and how to use it with capital letters, and demonstrates its usefulness through a story about the problems in Punctuation Junction before punctuation superhero Super Period brought back the periods.




A History of Greece


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Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.




Boyle-Breath Breathes


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READ THIS BOOK AND YOU'LL NEVER SMELL THE SAME AGAIN! Bernadette Burnett should smell (she did die in 'Boyle-Breath') but instead she brings a breath of fresh air, and lots more, to Roquefort High School. Not quite C. S. I. but 'Burt' wants to find out...first why she's back at all, then em why she killed herself!? Bernard Boyle will help again of course, with smells, odours, whiffs and stinks, even 'The Comfy Chair'? Snipers and Social Workers, ghosts and ghouls, boils and bullying, dreams and surprises, angels and devils will as always get in the way... Heaven and Hell basically, i. e. Life on the Planet Earth continues... Zeronia, that 'Social Workers of the Galaxy' orb, tries to help again with all those other everyday human problems - families, especially teenagers; gangs; pregnancy; with firestarting, dyslexia, alcoholism and UFOs; vampires, love and money? Crossing the road... Human beings try to help, a dog does also! HELL IS A PUNCTUATION ERROR




Groundsquirrel Teaches Bluejay to Talk: A First Grammar of Mingo Iroquois


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A series of rollicking stories in which a groundsquirrel teaches a bluejay to speak an Iroquoian dialect, Mingo, in the mountains of West Virginia and other places. A beginners' grammar by Jordan Lachler. A section of 70 quatrains introducing some Mingo names of plants, animals, and other spirits.




The Oxford Colour Dictionary


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The Cherry Tree


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The Cherry Tree was first published in 1932 and is the final volume in Adrian Bell's classic rural trilogy. The first two volumes are Corduroy and Silver Ley. In The Cherry Tree the author describes further farming experiences, his marriage, and becoming habituated to country life. Taken together these three volumes have been described 'as the classic account of a twentieth-century Englishman's conversion to rural life'.