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Ben Yagoda

Ben Yagoda has published more than a dozen books, including Will Rogers: A Biography ; About Town: "The New Yorker" and the World It Made ; When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better and/or Worse ; and The Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing . He is professor emeritus of English at the University of Delaware. His blog, Not One-Off Britishisms , has been visited more than 3 million times.