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Follett, Wilson, Modern American Usage: A Guide
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Erik Wensberg has worked as an editor at Esquire and The New York Times Book Review, and has taught nonfiction writing at Columbia University.
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Nobody has discussed these matters with greater lucidity and concision (another linguistic virtue) than Wilson Follett.... You cannot read Modern American Usage in one or two sittings: This is a handbook to be perused for pleasure as well as instruction a few pages at a time, to be savored for its common sense and its many fine positive and negative examples. And, of course, to be consulted as the need arises. -- The Wall Street Journal, John Simon
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- PublisherHill & Wang
- Publication date1966
- ISBN 10 0809069504
- ISBN 13 9780809069507
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages443
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