Oxford's Practical English Usage Guide Comes to Android The interactive version of grammarian Michael Swan's authoritative guide to English usage questions which bedevil even the most advanced ...

If you’re a writer or editor you likely already regard Garner’s Modern English Usage as an indispensable guide. First published in 1998, the work (famously celebrated by David Foster Wallace) covers ...

In 1940, St. Clair McKelway typed a memo to William Shawn, The New Yorker’s managing editor for fact. McKelway was writing a six-part Profile of Walter Winchell for the magazine, and he was unhappy ...

H. W. Fowler's "Dictionary of Modern English Usage" is one of the fruits of the Oxford English Dictionary. The O.E.D. was (like many Victorian novels) published in parts: it was a serial publication ...