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Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? Reference & Collections of Biographies ISBN13: 9780385262781 ISBN10: 0385262787 MaterialAdmiring colleagues have called Edwin Newman an antipollutant, sensibly sardonic, a rare bird, a genial intellect, a man nobody is going to fool anywhere, anytime, anyway. Here, in his first book, these qualities are joined. Newman focuses on the sorry state of the English language as a reflection of the sorry state of the society. He skewers stereotypes, clichs, errors, and jargon used by weather forecasters, presidents, vice presidents,