A critically acclaimed guide to English usage. Includes more than 2,300 entries presenting the history, analysis, and recommendations regarding noted usage controversies. Entries are illustrated with more than 20,000 quotations from prominent writers.\ \ \ Objective and comprehensive, Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage is a readable and entertaining guide to the complex history of some of the thorniest usage issues in the English language. The scholarship...
A critically acclaimed guide to English usage. Includes more than 2,300 entries presenting the history, analysis, and recommendations regarding noted usage controversies. Entries are illustrated with more than 20,000 quotations from prominent writers.