A style manual for English speakers on both sides of the Atlantic identifies the common mistakes and correct usage of everything from dangling participles to transitive verbs.

Introduction: Language is power -- Have you eaten grandma? : basic punctuation -- Must dash--hyphen can wait : dashes, hyphens, slashes, and more! -- Apostrophe now : apostrophes, possession, and omission -- Spelling is big potatoes : spelling rules, prefixes, and silent letters -- Of mice & meece & mouses : pluralization and word roots -- Yanks away : British versus American English -- A bad spell of whether : homophones and heterography -- LOL--YOLO--hahaha : abbreviations, initialisms, and acronyms -- Bad language? : offensive language, slang, and wordplay -- The rules : guidance for good communication -- Postscript: The language of grammar.