English Without Tears: Mind Your P's and Q's is a practical textbook
that delves into the nitty gritty of the English language spoken in this
contemporaneous global village. Jettisoned by its biological mother, the
English Language has been adopted, appropriated, nurtured and made to
bear the hallmarks of global Englishes. It is still the English language
in full communion with its ancestral roots, but it is English that been
panel beaten almost out of shape and endowed with the speech mannerisms,
elocutionary patterns and phonetic peculiarities of the non-native. The
goal of this book has been to shed ample light on some grammatical and
lexical incongruities that often disfigure the speech of Anglophones
whose mother tongue is not English. We are hopeful that this work would
meet the dire needs of students and instructors of the English language
all over the world. The substance in this book is easily digestible; our
lexical choices are devoid of convolution and our illustrations are
down-to-earth. Ultimately, this book is our unapologetic contribution to
the ongoing global Englishes revolution.