Words from Hell"A fiendishly good read!" Mignon Fogarty, Grammar Girl The English language is where words go to be tortured and mutilated into unrecognisable shadows of their former selves. It's where Latin, Greek, and Germanic roots are shredded apart and stitched unceremoniously back together with misunderstood snippets of languages snatched from the wreckage of conquest and colonialism. It wreaks merciless havoc upon grammar and spelling. It turns clinical terms