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Interestingly, The Times's "Manual of Style and Usage," a book used by editors and reporters in the newsroom, makes a point of saying to be cautious in using this word.
He outed himself while writing in Harper's on Bryan A. Garner's Dictionary of Modern American Usage, a book, he says, that serves to confirm its author's "SNOOTitude while undercutting it in tone".
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But Good acknowledges the overriding rule of usage: "You'll go further in life by violating the rule of pronoun case and saying, 'It was me".' Now to his title, using the preposition for: a noun that is the object of a preposition requires the objective case (like me, him, her), and so the correct formal use is also the common usage: "A Grammar Book for You and Me".
A language may be whatever the people who speak that language make it, but "Modern English Usage" is not a book about language.
Bill Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words (Broadway, slim hardcover, $20) is a usage book with a nice sense of differentiation.
He asks, for instance: "Of what utility is a usage book to some writer – of fiction or nonfiction?" In turn, Wallace talks about his students, a hard drive metaphor, and why a usage book "is one of the great bathroom books of all time".
Working out of a pair of granite cottages, the Fowler brothers collaborated on a book of usage, which they called "The King's English".
Additionally, a book chapter describing its usage and application has been published [ 14].
While editing Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage, the book that many writers and editors turn to as the correct usage bible, I had de Saussure's maxim constantly in mind.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com