Modern American Usage information

Modern American Usage may refer to: Follett's Modern American Usage, a 1966 usage guide for contemporary American English by Wilson Follett Garner's Modern...

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), by Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933), is a style guide to British English usage, pronunciation, and writing...

2010-03-20. Bryan A. Garner (28 July 2009). "Hopefully". Garner's Modern American Usage (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 427–28. ISBN 978-0-19-987462-0...

preferred in American English usage guides by Bryan Garner and Robert Hartwell Fiske and is listed as a variant spelling of gauntlet by American dictionaries...

term was coined by the lexicographer Bryan A. Garner in Garner's Modern American Usage and has since been adopted by some other style guides. Garner recommends...

Modern kana usage (現代仮名遣い, gendai kanazukai) is the present official kanazukai (system of spelling the Japanese syllabary). Also known as new kana usage...

same entry's usage note by saying that both spellings are common in general usage in American English. The usage note also ignores the modern widespread...

than, the first. In Garner's Modern American Usage, Garner says writers sometimes use a fortiori as an adjective as in "a usage to be resisted". He provides...

or American English, with Garner's Modern English Usage stating British English and A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language stating American English...

Harper's Magazine. "Authority and American Usage" A 62-page review of Bryan A. Garner's A Dictionary of Modern American Usage. Wallace applies George Orwell's...

guides, with the APA style, The Chicago Manual of Style, Garner's Modern American Usage, Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, and the U.S. Government...

loose undergarment ... hanging from the shoulders or waist". In modern American usage, "petticoat" refers only to a garment hanging from the waist. They...

Bill Bryson. The Careful Writer, by Theodore Bernstein. Garner's Modern American Usage by Bryan A. Garner. The Elements of Style. By William Strunk, Jr...

province thought to be the epicentre of the SARS outbreak." Garner's Modern American Usage gives several examples of use in which "epicenter" is used to mean...

umbrella known as General American. This section mostly refers to such General American features. Studies on historical usage of English in both the United...

the form of horizontal boards, often overlapping. Clapboard, in modern American usage, is a word for long, thin boards used to cover walls and (formerly)...

ISBN 978-1-59986-933-9. Do not join independent clauses by a comma. Garner's Modern American Usage, (Oxford: 2003, p. 655) Chicago Manual of Style: "It's conventional...

The most common name for the American Civil War in modern American usage is simply "The Civil War". Although rarely used during the war, the term "War...

Incorporated. p. 207. ISBN 978-1-886590-27-4. Garner, B. (2009). Garner's Modern American Usage. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 398. ISBN 978-0-19-988877-1. "Definition...

Garner, A Dictionary of Modern American Usage, New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American English, Merriam-Webster:...

This list comprises widespread modern beliefs about English language usage that are documented by a reliable source to be misconceptions. With no authoritative...

the usage in the United States and usage in Europe. According to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (writing in 1956), "[l]iberalism in the American usage has...

defeat in the Battle of Jena in 1806. In his review of Garner's Modern American Usage, David Foster Wallace referred to the "Colonel Blimp's rage" of...

NFL) are not acronyms; they are just abbreviations." Garner's Modern American Usage says "An acronym is made from the first letters or parts of a compound...