Americanisms have been slyly coloring the English language for centuries, and this practice must stop. Period.
Matthew Engel is a journalist and author. He writes regularly for the Guardian and Financial Times, among other publications, and was the editor of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for twelve years. He is also a baseball enthusiast. His books include Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain, Extracts from the Red Notebooks and Engel's England: Thirty-nine Counties, One Capital and One Man (Profile, 2014) [9781846685729].
An acerbically witty and entertaining survey ... a work of stubborn
persistence, or resistance.
*Sunday Times*
One of journalism's great exponents of English English.
*Guardian*
Throughout his entertaining history, Engel argues for a stout
forward defence against this onslaught of "cool" and
"fun" and "you guys".
*The Guardian*
Highly entertaining.
*Spectator*
Engel [hunts] down his prey like a linguistic witchfinder-general
... short-tempered but consistently witty.
*New Statesman*
Praise for Engel's England:
'Wry, rueful, funny, packed with knowledge, and, like all good
reporting, entirely personal and subjective, it is simply the most
enjoyable commentary on today's England that could be imagined.
*Sunday Times*
Highly personal and very funny
*London Review of Books*
The great pleasure in the book - for Engel as much as the reader -
is in his love of the entertaining factual nugget
*Financial Times*
Engel has the perfect light, humorous touch for the task.
*New Statesman*
Immensely enjoyable... Engel is a wonderfully wry comic writer.
*The Guardian*
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