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WORD COURT
By Barbara Wallraff
Harcourt, 368 pages, $24
We’ve all seen the carved-wood signs on houses announcing “The Jone’s” or invitations proclaiming, “Your invited.” Such misuse of possessives and contractions dismays Barbara Wallraff, Atlantic Monthly columnist and author of “Word Court.” In this engaging volume, Wallraff addresses concerns about language that range from the everyday to the sometimes annoyingly esoteric.
