The words ‘English grammar’ have the ability to make even the most fanatical of language pedants yawn in stultified flaccidity. Tenses, clauses and participles might sound like exercises a sadistic personal trainer instructs, yet they’re essential components of a grammatical work-out. Over the centuries, style guides have remained archaic and humdrum; rote learning an embittered English teacher, straddling the divide between education and academia, has inflicted upon countless students. It is no surprise that these manuals complete their lifecycle as spit balls affixed to the ceiling of English Classes. Until now.

Enter The Elements of F*cking Style, a style guide for modern-day use whose rules you’ll actually remember. Parodying the original Elements of Style, authors, Chris Baker and Jacob Hansen provide examples that are easy to recall due to their subject matter: drugs, swearing, drugs, sex, prostitution, drugs, alcohol and drugs.

With chapter titles including “All I’ve got in this world are my sentences and my balls, and I don’t break ’em for nobody,” “A colon is more than an organ that gets cancer,” and “Words your bound to fuck up,” it makes hilariously educational reading—all for the price of an imported beer.

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