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The first thing to say about this monumental (in more senses than one) work is: don’t drop it on your toe. It dwarfs all similar works, and when one considers that Garner is a professor of law, not formally trained in linguistics, his achievement is even more admirable. Firmly in the tradition of Partridge and the various editions of Fowler, he outdoes them all with 1,056 pages. Previous editions were called Garner’s Modern American Usage, and it is good to see him expanding his work to cover the entire world of the use of English, though, of...
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