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"Howard Kaikow" <kaikow@standards.com> wrote in message news:<9ren6p$lib$1@pyrite.mv.net>...
> I already have:
> 
> 1. Fowler's Modern English Usage (2nd edition), revised and edited by
> Gowers.
> 2. Handbook of TECHNICAL WRITING (5th edition) by Brusaw, Alred, and Oliu.
> 
> I will definitely be getting Garner's Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage (2nd
> edition)
> 
> I'm looking for something more modern than Fowler.
> Any opinions on the following, both by Bryan Garner?

****  I'm not being "clever" when I reflect that much of my habits,
and most of my joys, of writing actually come from having read people
like Evelyn Waugh -- and son Auberon of course.  Not that are many
people "like" Evelyn.  Their way with words, and with people, is in
the back of my mind when I tackle the kind of writing that gets the
world's work done.  I think old Fowler would agree with me.

DK, Canada
> 
> Published in 1998, Dictionary of Modern American Usage has 752 pages, pages
> are 9.58 x 6.82 inches.
> Published in 2000, The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style has 480
> pages,  pages are 8.19 x 5.47 inches.