{"product_id":"garners-modern-english-usage-9780197599020","title":"Garner's Modern English Usage","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe most original and authoritative voice of today's English lexicography presents a fully revised new edition of his beloved usage dictionary\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Bryan Garner published the first edition of \u003cem\u003eA Dictionary of Modern American Usage\u003c\/em\u003e in 1999, the book quickly became one of the most influential style guides ever written for the English language. After four previous editions and over twenty years, our language has evolved in many ways, and the powerful tool of big data has revolutionized lexicography. This extensively revised new edition fully captures these changes, featuring a thousand new entries and over two hundred replacement entries, thoroughly updated usage data and ratios on word frequency based on the Google Ngram Viewer, a more balanced coverage of World Englishes, not just American and British, and the inclusion of gender-neutral language. However, one thing has not changed: in no sense is this a regular dictionary but a masterpiece of lexicography written with wit and personality by one of the preeminent authorities on the English language. To put it in David Foster Wallace's words, Garner's discussion of rhetoric\u003cbr\u003eand style still borders on genius. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the (lost) battle between \u003cem\u003eself-deprecating\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eself-depreciating\u003c\/em\u003e to the misuse of \u003cem\u003eit's\u003c\/em\u003e for \u003cem\u003eits\u003c\/em\u003e, from the variant spelling \u003cem\u003epatty-cake\u003c\/em\u003e taking over \u003cem\u003epat-a-cake\u003c\/em\u003e in American English to the singular uses of \u003cem\u003ethey\u003c\/em\u003e, Garner explains the nuances of grammar and vocabulary and the linguistic blunders to which modern writers and speakers are prone, whether in word choice, syntax, phrasing, punctuation, or pronunciation. His empirical approach liberates English from two extremes: from the purists who maintain that split infinitives and sentence-ending prepositions are malfeasances and from the linguistic relativists who believe that whatever people say or write must necessarily be accepted. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe purpose of Garner's dictionary is to help writers, editors, and speakers use the language effectively. And it does so in a playful and persuasive way that will help you sound grammatical but relaxed, refined but natural, correct but unpedantic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197599020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 1306","brand":"Bryan A. Garner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42389556822197,"sku":"9780197599020","price":53.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_417185df-d68c-4251-a961-69cd84f6899e.jpg?v=1663682100","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/garners-modern-english-usage-9780197599020","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}