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Kathryn Petras & Ross Petras
writers - quote curators - logophiles - siblings
 
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  • Home
  • About our work
  • About us
  • Books
    • 2019 calendars: The 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said, The 365 Smartest Things Ever Said, The Stupidest Sports Calendar
    • Age Doesn’t Matter Unless You’re a Cheese
    • 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
    • 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
  • Excerpts
    • excerpts from That Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
      • That Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means: All Right/Alright
      • That Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means: Discreet/Discrete
      • That Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means: Nonplussed
    • excerpts from You’re Saying It Wrong
      • You’re Saying it Wrong: Bruschetta
      • You’re Saying It Wrong: Champ at the bit
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 numerous other non-fiction books. Their latest book That Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means focuses on the most misused and confused words in the English language, They are do a biweekly podcast about words with NPR’s KMUW (cleverly) called You’re Saying It Wrong.  Kathy lives with her husband in Seattle, and Ross with his wife in Toronto.

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