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Garner's Modern English Usage (Hardcover, 5th Revised edition)
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Garner's Modern English Usage (Hardcover, 5th Revised edition)
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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."
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