_Ten Grammatical Errors_

[Arnold Zwicky]

a while back, The Vocabula Review [i assume this is an allusion to The
National Review] posted a reference to its volume 3, no. 1 (1/20/01)
piece "Grammar and Disputation: A Summary of Methods and Arguments
from _Ten Grammatical Errors in the American Heritage Dictionary" by
peter corey.  i quote:

 About a year ago, I wrote a book titled _Ten Grammatical Errors..._,
 which analyzes some errors in grammatical judgment made by the
 editors of the _AHD_, as well as some errors in grammatical judgment
 made by the chairman of the dictionary's Usage Panel, Geoffrey
 Nunberg.  I later expanded the book...  The epilogue is my
 personal "J'Accuse," which I title, "How Linguistics Killed
 Grammar."

now, normally i would shrug this sort of thing off.  but i'm thinking
of offering an undergraduate seminar next year on prescriptive
grammar, and this book sounded like the perfect foil to the AHD and
MWDEU.

the problem is that i can find no reference to the book in question,
neither in the list of books offered for sale by TVR nor in searches
of on-line booksellers.  i suspect that corey means literally what
he says: he wrote a book, and then he expanded it; he never said
he *published* anything.

anybody know any different?

arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)