Fritz Spiegl

Fritz Spiegl's many books include Keep Taking the Tabloids a diatribe against the abuse of English commonly found in our popular press two gravestone-shaped books A Small Book of Grave Humor and Dead Funny InWords and OutWords The Joy of Words Mediawrite/Mediaspeak (the language of the press and broadcasting) and Music through the Looking-Glass (musical terms and professional jargon). He also produced Scouse International (the Liverpool dialect in five languages including Japanese) to accompany four earlier volumes of Lern Yerself Scouse.