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Author Garner, Bryan A.

Title Garner's modern American usage / Bryan A. Garner.

Edition Third edition.
Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, [2009]
©2009
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1547140~S1
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Description ix, 942 pages ; 26 cm
Note Includes index.
Bibliography "A timeline of books on usage": pages 925-938.
Contents Preface to the third edition -- Preface to second edition -- Preface to first edition -- Acknowledgments -- List of essay entries -- List of abbreviations -- Pronunciation guide -- Key to the language-change index -- Essay: Making peace in the language wars -- Essay: The ongoing struggles of garlic-hangers -- Modern American usage -- Glossary of grammatical, rhetorical, and other language-related terms -- A timeline of books on usage -- Select bibliography -- Select index of writers quoted or mentioned.
Summary A guide to proper American English word usage, grammar, pronunciation, and style features examples of good and bad usage from the media.
Subject English language -- Usage -- Dictionaries.
Americanisms -- Dictionaries.
Added Title Modern American usage
ISBN 9780195382754
0195382757
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