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Kathryn Petras
I'm half of a brother and sister writing team. We were raised in suburbia, one of us wears glasses, one doesn't, and 50% of us is female. The other 50% is male -- and is taller than the other half.We're the creators of the national bestselling Stupidest series - which includes the #1 bestselling... show more

I'm half of a brother and sister writing team. We were raised in suburbia, one of us wears glasses, one doesn't, and 50% of us is female. The other 50% is male -- and is taller than the other half.We're the creators of the national bestselling Stupidest series - which includes the #1 bestselling page-a-day calendar The 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said (now in its 21st year -- with over 4.5 million copies sold) and books like Unusually Stupid Americans. We've also written numerous other humor books including B is for Botox (an alphabet book for middle aged people), Jane's Guide to Dicks, and Wretched Writing, as well as compiling inspirational bestselling quote books like Age Doesn't Matter Unless You're a Cheese and It Always Seems Impossible Until It's Done (with over 568k copies sold). (Visit us at stupidest.com and on Facebook -- FB/unusually.stupid or FB/kathy.petras)Our work has received the attention of personalities like Kathie Lee Gifford and Howard Stern and diverse media outlets including the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and the London Times. We have been a guests on hundreds of radio shows and tv shows, including Good Morning America, CNN, and Fox and Friends.I am a noir film and novel fiend, a bad joke aficionado, a word nut, a quote fan, and (I must admit) a sometimes annoying grammar pedant. And I'm proud to say I was on Jeopardy (but, sadly, came in third - and only won a designer watch ...).
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Murder by Death
Murder by Death rated it 6 years ago
My 'discovery' of this book is a perfect example for the argument of using a continuity of style on book covers. A year or two ago, I bought and read You're Saying it Wrong, book about commonly mispronounced words, and loved it (I've been saying Turmeric and Van Gogh wrong all. my. life.) I recogn...
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Tannat rated it 8 years ago
*Hisses at book* There. That’s over with. I found this book more annoying than informative as you may have guessed if you were following my status updates. The authors supposedly chose their pronunciation representations based on what looks easiest to understand but I frequently struggled to inter...
Murder by Death
Murder by Death rated it 8 years ago
Subtitle: A pronunciation guide to the 150 most commonly mispronounced words and their tangled histories of misuse. It's pretty straightforward: a word per page, with the correct usage, how it's mispronounced and this historical reasons for both the correct and incorrect usage, sometimes more spec...
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Jessica's Book Thoughts rated it 9 years ago
This is a fun, informative read. I had a blast having my husband try to pronounce some of them. Who the heck knew that gyros pronounced YEE roh? This starts with acai and stops at zydeco. Each entry has a history bind the word, a definition,and a proper pronunciation. I do like that some of the en...
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