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The Book Pile

The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E. B. White

The Book Pile

Kellen Erskine and David Vance

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.8598 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The Elements of Style is one of the most popular writing books of all time, so it seemed a natural fit for this, the most popular podcast of all time. Plus, Kellen believes “alright” is two words (he is technically right, but morally wrong). And Dave makes an Oprah quote worse. * To buy the book, The Elements of Style, or listen to it free on Audible AND support the podcast, click here! https://amzn.to/3rQ1djX * TheBookPilePodcast@gmail.com * Kellen Erskine has appeared on Conan, Comedy...

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone. Here at the bookpile, we provide only the most entertaining content, like today's book on grammar.

0:05.6

It's Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White. Next week, we'll do some math.

0:10.4

I'm Kellanerskin. I'm a comic, and this has been my favorite book on writing ever since I was a teenager in Barnes & Noble and found the skinniest book on grammar.

0:23.4

And I'm David Vance. I loved E.B. White's book, Charlotte's Webb and Stuart Little, so I was

0:28.0

captivated by this book's protagonist, Nouns.

0:30.9

The Elements of Style is a short, bold, and quietly funny guide to English grammar.

0:37.2

It sits on the bookshelves of Stephen King,

0:40.4

Roger Ebert, and Ben Affleck. And this is the book pile. So here's a piece of fan mail that I don't

0:47.6

think the author will mind my reading. It is from the person who left to review that week, whose name in the review was Coriho, or at least I read it that way, thinking it came from the Spanish verb to correct.

1:02.0

She says, hey, thanks for mentioning my review. I'm a girl named Corinne.

1:09.2

So she did write in to correct our Spanish.

1:12.7

She says, my nickname growing up was Corey Joe.

1:19.8

It's great because she concludes with, I don't speak Spanish, but I feel I have to correct you as that is my name now.

1:30.8

So, thanks, Corinne, that that was a lot of fun.

1:35.8

I just, I want to plug a website for a foundation that she works for.

1:39.7

This isn't a joke.

1:40.5

It's a website called knowyourlemons.com, and they provide creative ways to help detect

1:46.9

breast cancer early.

1:49.0

Oh, wow.

1:49.6

Yeah.

1:50.0

So go to know your lemons.com.

1:52.2

And then here's another piece of fan mail from Jen Fisher.

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