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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?
>
> 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.
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do you have time to read 752 pages?
plus 482

read it quickly and remeber little
slowly and get bored

Hugh W

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let us know what the consensus is !