Subject: English language › Usage

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• A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by H. W. Fowler (1,349 copies)
• Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in… by Patricia T. O'Conner (1,174 copies)
• Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson (896 copies)
• The New Fowler's Modern English Usage by H. W. Fowler (508 copies)
• Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English by Eric Partridge (390 copies)
• Practical English Usage by Michael Swan (304 copies)
• The King's English by H. W. Fowler (296 copies)
• Dictionary of Cliches by James Rogers (247 copies)
• The King's English : A Guide to Modern Usage by Kingsley Amis (230 copies)
• Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Merriam-Webster (222 copies)
• The Careful Writer by Theodore M. Bernstein (203 copies)
• Modern American Usage: A Guide by Wilson Follett (193 copies)
• On language by William Safire (182 copies)
• Strictly Speaking by Edwin Newman (176 copies)
• Lost for Words: The Mangling and Manipulating of the… by John Humphrys (170 copies)
• Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language… by June Casagrande (167 copies)
• Edit Yourself: A Manual for Everyone Who Works With Words by Bruce Ross-Larson (165 copies)
• Between You and I: A Little Book of Bad English by James Cochrane (162 copies)
• Eats, Shites & Leaves: Crap English and How to Use It by A. Parody (159 copies)
• Grammatically Correct: The Writer's Essential Guide to… by Anne Stilman (159 copies)
• Write Right!: A Desktop Digest of Punctuation, Grammar, and… by Jan Venolia (140 copies)
• Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors by Bill Bryson (128 copies)
• The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and… by David Crystal (125 copies)
• Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions by Harry Shaw (123 copies)
• The English Language by David Crystal (122 copies)
• Word Court: Wherein Verbal Virtue Is Rewarded, Crimes… by Barbara Wallraff (120 copies)
• Plain English Handbook by J. Martyn Walsh (115 copies)
• 100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses by Editors of The American Heritage Dictionaries (109 copies)
• The little English handbook: Choices and conventions by Edward P. J. Corbett (108 copies)
• Common Errors in English Usage by Paul Brians (106 copies)
• Fumblerules by William Safire (103 copies)
• Less Than Words Can Say by Richard Mitchell (101 copies)
• Checking Your Grammar: Scholastic Guides by Marvin Terban (101 copies)
• Grammar Smart (The Princeton Review) by Nell Goddin (101 copies)
• Prentice Hall Reference Guide to Grammar and Usage by Muriel Harris (98 copies)
• Errors in English and ways to correct them by Harry Shaw (96 copies)
• Mind the Gaffe: The Penguin Guide to Common Errors in… by R. L. Trask (94 copies)
• Adventures of a Verbivore by Richard Lederer (91 copies)
• The Oxford Style Manual by R. M. Ritter (89 copies)
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Grammar and Style by Laurie Rozakis (87 copies)
• Miss Thistlebottom's Hobgoblins: The Careful Writer's Guide… by Theodore Menline Bernstein (87 copies)
• Harper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage by William Morris (87 copies)
• Torn Wings and Faux Pas: A Flashbook of Style, a Beastly… by Karen Elizabeth Gordon (86 copies)
• The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style by Paul M. Lovinger (75 copies)
• Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative by Karen Elizabeth Gordon (74 copies)
• BUGS in Writing: A Guide to Debugging Your Prose (2nd… by lyn dupre (74 copies)
• The Grouchy Grammarian: A How-Not-To Guide to the 47 Most… by Thomas Parrish (74 copies)
• Dictionary Of Disagreeable English: A Curmudgeon's… by Robert Hartwell Fiske (73 copies)
• A dictionary of contemporary American usage by Bergen Evans (70 copies)
• A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage by Bryan A. Garner (70 copies)

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