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Kathryn Petras & Ross Petras
writers - quote curators - logophiles - siblings
 
  • Home
  • About our work
  • About us
  • ARC
  • Some of our articles
  • Some of our books
    • 2021 calendars: The 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said | The 365 Smartest Things Ever Said
    • Age Doesn’t Matter Unless You’re a Cheese
    • Awkword Moments
    • B is for Botox/1,2 Can’t Reach My Shoe
    • Change Happens
    • Dance First, Think Later
    • Don’t Forget to Sing in the Lifeboats
    • Here Speeching American
    • It Always Seems Impossible Until It’s Done
    • Nothing Is Worth More Than This Day
    • That Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
      • Endnotes
    • The Anthology of Really Important American Poetry
    • The Lexicon of Stupidity
    • The Stupidest Sports Book of All Time
    • Very Bad Poetry
    • Wretched Writing
    • You’re Saying It Wrong
  • Words on Words
    • all right/alright
    • bruschetta
    • capricious
    • champ at the bit
    • desultory
    • nonplussed
    • To Me or Not To Me: I vs. Me, Her & Him vs. She & He, Them vs. They
    • Who vs. Whom: When and why to use “whom” instead of “who”
Kathryn Petras & Ross Petras

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In brief

KATHRYN & ROSS PETRAS are the New York Times bestselling authors of You’re Saying It Wrong, as well as companion “word nerd” books That Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means and Awkword Moments, their newest, a very quirky history book, A History of the World Through Body Parts, and numerous other non-fiction books. They co-host an award-winning NPR.org podcast (also called You’re Saying It Wrong. — which just won a first prize for podcasts by the PMJA — Public Media Journalists Association) about word histories, language controversies, grammar and all things word-related.

Kathy lives in Granada, Spain, and Ross in Toronto, Canada.

contact us: kathyandross@kandrpetras.com
Twitter — @kandrpetras

 

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