Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!mhuxm!pyuxww!pyuxa!wetcw From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Style Books Message-ID: <563@pyuxa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Feb-84 13:28:31 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxa.563 Posted: Fri Feb 10 13:28:31 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 08:45:23 EST References: <4749@rochester.UUCP> Organization: Central Services Org., Piscataway N.J. Lines: 10 I would also like to reccommend "Modern English Usage" by H. W. Fowler Oxford U. Press, for its wit and wisdom. Written 70 years ago, the rules and ideas remain for today's usage. Strunk & White is a nice little book, but more suited for English 101 or Freshman exposition classes. If you really want to dig it out, Fowler or Follet will provide you with more than enough material, plus Fowler's wit (see split infinitives) will make the digging more enjoyable. T. C. Wheeler