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...
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), by Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933), is a style guide to British English usage, pronunciation, and writing...
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English usage and style such as Garner's Modern English Usage for a general audience, and others for legal professionals. Garner also wrote two books with Justice...
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Dictionary of Modern English Usage. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-106230-8. Garner, Bryan (11 March 2016). Garner's Modern English Usage. Oxford University...
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Linguistic prescription (redirect from English usage)
International Dictionary (1961) and the third edition Garner's Modern English Usage (2009) in English, or the Nouveau Petit Robert (1993) in French. A partially...
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Positive anymore (category English words)
Northern Ireland. Regarding prescriptive recommendations on usage, Garner's Modern English Usage echoes the typical prescription that it not be used in writing...
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and usage. Usage manuals such as Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage or Garner's Modern English Usage often prescribe appropriate usage of synonyms...
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Misnomer (category English-language idioms)
term anachronym as defined in Garner's Modern English Usage refers to this type of misnomer. Examples cited by Garner include the persistence of the...
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more consistent and appropriate point of view?" Bryan A. Garner, in Garner's Modern English Usage, stresses the advantages of the active voice, but gives...
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A. Garner in Garner's Modern English Usage, that "eg" and "ie" style versus "e.g." and "i.e." style are two poles of British versus American usage are...
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