Bookish since boyhood, I’ve long considered myself a few steps above semiliterate. That is, until I read “Garner’s Modern English Usage,” a 1,000-plus page behemoth of a book, penned by lawyer and lexicographer Bryan A. Garner. (David Foster Wallace called the man a “genius.”) The work brought to light many errors and lapses in thought I’d been unknowingly perpetrating, making what was once familiar seem fresh and new.
I Plead the FIF: A Few Notes on English
I Plead the FIF: A Few Notes on English
I Plead the FIF: A Few Notes on English
Bookish since boyhood, I’ve long considered myself a few steps above semiliterate. That is, until I read “Garner’s Modern English Usage,” a 1,000-plus page behemoth of a book, penned by lawyer and lexicographer Bryan A. Garner. (David Foster Wallace called the man a “genius.”) The work brought to light many errors and lapses in thought I’d been unknowingly perpetrating, making what was once familiar seem fresh and new.