The Chemist's English

1 To Get Acquainted
2 The Search for the Missing Ablative

3 Arguing with Authority

4 Defying the Dictionary

5 To Reflux or not to Reflux

6 Amazing Revelations: English Scientists Secretly Practise German Vice!

7 Of Nuts, Muttons and Shotguns

8 Tetravalency of Carbon Disproved!

9 This Chapter Explains

10 The Painful Plight of the Pendent Participle Preamble

11 Discussing the Sentry Participle, We

12 The Case Against the Advocate

13 That's the Way She Crumbles, Language-Wise

14 Now, from the Pen that Gave You Monglish, Comes Gerglish

15 The Chemist and the Capercailzie

16 That Fellow Acronym He All Time Make Trouble

17 On the Divisibility of Earth/Worms

18 Instant Stylistics

19 A Piece of Classified Information

20 An Investigative Examination of Driveliferous Jargonogenesis

21 Brevity = Soul of Wit?

22 One, Hand, Clapping

23 Alphabetical Disorder

24 Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Data?

25 Yes, Virginia, There Is a Temperature

26 The Truth about the Truth

27 They Also Serve Who Only Pull and Tug

28 On the Training of Old Dogs for Which-Hunting

29 A Package of Strings

30 A Clash of Symbols

31 In Praise of Prepositions

32 A Prowl Among Personal Pronouns

33 How Good is Your English? How Good is English?

34 A Chemical Analysis of the English Sentence

35 Lights! Camera! Action!

36 Say It in English, Please!

Index