A Dictionary Of Modern American Usage PDF

A desk reference book to place beside Fowler, but a book that the average American will find of less value than foreigners —Englishmen included — who will discover through it the niceties of differentiation between English and American usage. An essential book for English writers and dramatists who would be certain of the picture they would paint in their American characters.

Garner's Modern English Usage (GMEU), written by Bryan A. Garner and published by Oxford University Press, is a usage dictionary and style guide (or 'prescriptive dictionary') for contemporary Modern English. [pages needed] It was first published in 1998 as A Dictionary of Modern American Usage, with a focus on American English, which it retained for the next two editions as Garner's Modern ...