"He knew what he wanted from life," wrote the man who produced the second edition of "Modern English Usage," Ernest Gowers.
That is why the first edition of "Modern English Usage" has survived far longer eighty-six years and counting—than any of the scores of similonger eighty-sixed before or since.
That is why the first edition of "Modern English Usage" has survived far longer — eighty-six yeand and counting — than any of the scores of similar books published before or since.
It could be a reachable goal, especially with the free Community Edition helping to drive usage.
The American Heritage Dictionary silently dropped the usage note on wellness in its fourth edition in 2000, a decision that its supervising editor, Steve Kleinedler, chalks up to the growing prevalence of wellness programs in the workplace and beyond.
Robert Burchfield, editor of the third edition of Fowler's Modern English Usage, writes, "The possessive with gerund is on the retreat, but its use with proper names and personal nouns and pronouns persists in good writing".
Now Oxford University Press has reissued the classic first edition of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage ($29.95), with an acute new introduction by the linguist David Crystal.
"The Times virtually never prints obscene words, and it maintains a steep threshold for vulgar ones," write Allan M. Siegal and William G. Connolly in the 1999 edition of the Manual of Style and Usage.
Hidden in plain sight, amongst a set of unread, amusingly outdated World Books, I discovered in my Aunt Lane's bungalow living room, a 1941 edition of Etiquette "The Blue Book of Social Usage", by Emily Post.
The article also overlooked an element of style in The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage in referring to Roger Angell's introduction for the fourth edition of the book.
