Like, Literally, Dude

"With easygoing authority... [Fridland] offers context, and a welcoming spirit, to the many contentious realignments in our language." —The Wall Street Journal “Smart and funny—I loved it!" —Mignon Fogarty, author of New York Times bestseller Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing A lively linguistic exploration of the speech habits we love to hate—and why our “like”s  and “literally”s actually make us better communicators Paranoid about the “ums” and “uhs” that pepper your