About the Author

Robert Hartwell Fiske is the editor and publisher of The Vocabula Review (www.vocabula.com), an online journal about the English language, and certainly the principal web destination for anyone interested in words and language.

Reviews

"However curmudgeonly, Mr. Fiske betrays a bluff humanitarian spirit....[Fiske] wants to save [the English language]. And he knows that he can count on little help. Dictionaries "have virtually no standards, offer scant guidance, and advance only misunderstanding." His own flogging of Merriam-Webster's is one of the many pleasures of this lovely, sour, virtuous book." -"The Wall Street Journal"