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Author : Frank O. Colby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015038906932
Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780385679961
One of the English language's most skilled and beloved writers guides us all towards precise, mistake-free usage. In the middle 1980s Bill Bryson was a copy editor for the London Times with the brash idea that he could fill a hole in the British book market for a concise, accessible, handy guide to proper usage. A complete unknown, he nonetheless sold Penguin Books on the idea, and the result was The Penguin Dictionary of Troublesome Words, which sold decently enough on both sides of the Atlantic. Now, fifteen years later, Bill Bryson has become, well, Bill Bryson -- and his terrifically useful little book has been revised, updated and Americanized to become Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words. Precise, prescriptive, sometimes (like its author) amusingly prickly, this book belongs on the desk of every person who cares enough about our language not to maul or misuse or distort it. Move over, Strunk and White.
Author : Bryan A. Garner
Publisher : Oxford University
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195161915
Painstakingly researched with copious citations from books, newspapers, and news magazines, this new edition has become the classic reference work praised by professional copy editors.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1300 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006280452
Includes Part 1A: Books and Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : American drama
ISBN : UOM:39015058364186
Author : Bryan A. Garner,Distinguished Research Professor of Law Bryan A Garner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1306 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780197599020
The most original and authoritative voice of today's English lexicography presents a fully revised new edition of his beloved usage dictionary When Bryan Garner published the first edition of A Dictionary of Modern American Usage in 1999, the book quickly became one of the most influential style guides ever written for the English language. After four previous editions and over twenty years, our language has evolved in many ways, and the powerful tool of big data has revolutionized lexicography. This extensively revised new edition fully captures these changes, featuring a thousand new entries and over two hundred replacement entries, thoroughly updated usage data and ratios on word frequency based on the Google Ngram Viewer, a more balanced coverage of World Englishes, not just American and British, and the inclusion of gender-neutral language. However, one thing has not changed: in no sense is this a regular dictionary but a masterpiece of lexicography written with wit and personality by one of the preeminent authorities on the English language. To put it in David Foster Wallace's words, Garner's discussion of rhetoric and style still borders on genius. From the (lost) battle between self-deprecating and self-depreciating to the misuse of it's for its, from the variant spelling patty-cake taking over pat-a-cake in American English to the singular uses of they, Garner explains the nuances of grammar and vocabulary and the linguistic blunders to which modern writers and speakers are prone, whether in word choice, syntax, phrasing, punctuation, or pronunciation. His empirical approach liberates English from two extremes: from the purists who maintain that split infinitives and sentence-ending prepositions are malfeasances and from the linguistic relativists who believe that whatever people say or write must necessarily be accepted. The purpose of Garner's dictionary is to help writers, editors, and speakers use the language effectively. And it does so in a playful and persuasive way that will help you sound grammatical but relaxed, refined but natural, correct but unpedantic.
Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026087663
Author : Bryan Garner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1007 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199874620
Since first appearing in 1998, Garner's Modern American Usage has established itself as the preeminent guide to the effective use of the English language. Brimming with witty, erudite essays on troublesome words and phrases, GMAU authoritatively shows how to avoid the countless pitfalls that await unwary writers and speakers whether the issues relate to grammar, punctuation, word choice, or pronunciation. An exciting new feature of this third edition is Garner's Language-Change Index, which registers where each disputed usage in modern English falls on a five-stage continuum from nonacceptability (to the language community as a whole) to acceptability, giving the book a consistent standard throughout. GMAU is the first usage guide ever to incorporate such a language-change index. The judgments are based both on Garner's own original research in linguistic corpora and on his analysis of hundreds of earlier studies. Another first in this edition is the panel of critical readers: 120-plus commentators who have helped Garner reassess and update the text, so that every page has been improved. Bryan A. Garner is a writer, grammarian, lexicographer, teacher, and lawyer. He has written professionally about English usage for more than 28 years, and his work has achieved widespread renown. David Foster Wallace proclaimed that Bryan Garner is a genius and William Safire called the book excellent. In fact, due to the strength of his work on GMAU, Garner was the grammarian asked to write the grammar-and-usage chapter for the venerable Chicago Manual of Style. His advice on language matters is second to none.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1142 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : American literature
ISBN : PSU:000052000546
Author : Charles Harrington Elster
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 061842315X
The definitive pronouncement on more than 1,500 of our most commonly mispronounced words. From the language maven Charles Harrington Elster comes an authoritative and unapologetically opinionated look at American speech. As Elster points out, there is no sewer in connoisseur, no dip in diphthong, and no pronoun in pronunciation. The culmination of twenty years of observation and study, The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations is more than just a pronunciation guide. Elster discusses past and present usage, alternatives, analogies, and tendencies and offers plenty of advice, none of it objective. Whether you are adamant or ambivalent about the spoken word, Elster arms you with the information you need to decide what is acceptable for you. The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations has now been expanded and revised and features nearly 200 new words, including: al-Qaeda bruschetta commensurate coup de grace curriculum vita exacerbate gigabyte hara-kiri machismo Muslim Niger Pinochet Pulitzer sorbet tinnitus w (as in www-dot) and many, many more. Charles Harrington Elster is the pronunciation editor of Black's Law Dictionary and the author of various books about language, including Verbal Advantage, There's a Word for It, and What in the Word? He has been a guest columnist on language for the Boston Globe and the New York Times Magazine and a commentator on NPR and hundreds of radio shows around the country.
Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Allen Lane
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Reference
ISBN : IND:30000048908622
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : English language
ISBN : PSU:000057478746
Author : Naomi S. Baron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134663071
In Alphabet to Email Naomi Baron takes us on a fascinating and often entertaining journey through the history of the English language, showing how technology - especially email - is gradually stripping language of its formality. Drawing together strands of thinking about writing, speech, pedagogy, technology, and globalization, Naomi Baron explores the ever-changing relationship between speech and writing and considers the implications of current language trends on the future of written English. Alphabet to Email will appeal to anyone who is curious about how the English language has changed over the centuries and where it might be going.
Author : Robert W. Murphey
Publisher : New York : McGraw-Hill
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Reference books
ISBN : WISC:89046372876
Reference works and their use; Basic tipes of reference sources; Specific sources of information.
Author : Svante Stubelius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038299637