The Book Depository Garner's Modern English Usage by Bryan Garner
424 ratings
TO EXPLORE MORE
Price: £35.47
Brand: The Book Depository
Description: Garner's Modern English Usage : Hardback : Oxford University Press Inc : 9780190491482 : 0190491485 : 21 Apr 2016 : A cornerstore of Oxford's language reference list, Garner's Modern English Usage now includes revisions to more than 2,000 entries to reflect the nuances of English usage not only in the United States, but in Australia and New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Canada, and South Africa. The Book Depository Garner's Modern English Usage by Bryan Garner - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Merchant: The Book Depository
Product ID: 9780190491482
MPN: 0190491485
GTIN: 9780190491482
Author: jdc
Rating: 5
Review: American, but that is clear from the description. Combine with Fowlers and Penguin Usage and Abusage and you've got very good coverage of English usage.
Author: Davef117
Rating: 5
Review: Snoots can rejoice with the release of Garner's Modern English Usage--the fourth edition of Garner's Modern American Usage, renamed to reflect the its wider scope. I was looking forward to this new edition, and it's well worth it. Garner is a masterly lexicographer and his usage guides have always been authoritative, insightful, witty, and highly readable. This one is no exception. You'll find yourself looking up a word or phrase only to be sidetracked by other interesting entries that catch your eye along the way. The most notable new feature of the fourth edition is the inclusion of data from Google Ngrams, which are explained in the preface. Garner incorporates this big data into his entries, and provides ratios of the number of times recommended forms are used in the Ngram database with the number of times a particular variant form is used. This takes a lot of the guesswork and speculation out of the recommendations, and bolsters the credibility of the guide. If you already have the third edition of Garner's Modern American Usage, this edition is likely to be more a luxury than a necessity. But if you're looking for a usage guide and are unfamiliar with Garner's previous work, I strongly recommend Garner's Modern English Usage.
