Grammar Girl's 101 Words Every High School Graduate Needs to Know - Mignon Fogarty 2011

Acknowledgments

I am especially indebted to the sources I used in my research, including Great Quotes (great-quotes.com), the Internet Movie Database (IMDB.com), the Quotations Page (quotationspage.com), the Quotation section at Dictionary.com (http://quotes.dictionary.com/, based on The Columbia World of Quotations), Google Books, and all the people who have highlighted favorite quotations in the Good Reads Quotation section (http://www.goodreads.com/quotes). For etymology research and definitions, I relied primarily on the online versions of the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition; Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, and on Dictionary.com. Finally, a special thanks to @StolenDay on Twitter for pointing me to a blog post by Andy Bechtel, a copy editor who teaches at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, which discusses the 1991 use of schadenfreude in The Simpsons.

Thank you also to Lisa Senz at St. Martin’s Press, Emily Rothschild and Richard Rhorer at Macmillan, and Laurie Abkemeier at DeFiore and Company. Finally, most of all, thank you to my husband, Patrick. I’m glad we both took that English 101 course our senior year, and that the most convenient empty seat was next to you.