One Day in the Life of the English Language

Fun to read and think about. a little too wordy but still filled with common sense.

Author Frank Cioffi provides a concise description of this book in his introduction: "When I imagined this book, I wanted a volume that didn’t just lay out the “rules” -- we have lots of books that do that quite well -- but one that did something in addition to that. I wanted to provide a human voice chatting about those rules, one that used real-world rather than manufactured language as its model, and one that tried to show how using language carefully can improve the quality of human interactions.