I can't take it anymore. Improve yourselves with these fine books from Amazon.com.
Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras -
You're Saying It Wrong: A Pronunciation Guide to the 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words--and Their Tangled Histories of Misuse for $2.99.
Kliff Nesteroff -
The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy for $1.99.
Laura J. Snyder -
Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing for $1.99.
Pay especially close attention to the second book. There ain't nearly enough drinking and thieving going on around here.