Bryan Garner (1)

Superb.

As a Brit, Americanisms can grate; as can native speakers, at times, truth be told. I bear no ill will. We share a language that diverges and yet often converges owing to our connected world. Bryan brings much of our shared language together sensitively and absorbingly.

If you love language, then this book is a thing of beauty.

Essential for fans of Bryan Garner and near-essential for fans of David Wallace, Quack This Way is a short but fascinating transcript of a dialog about language and usage between two of the best modern practitioners. Gardner and Wallace became friendly after Wallace's essay "Tense Present," an extended essay and review of Gardner's Modern American Usage, was published in the Atlantic. Wallace's views on English and on the teaching of English to young writers, although expressed off the cuff, show more are cogent and worthy of study. Gardner's introduction to this volume is a poignant history of their correspondence and friendship. show less

It's rare to see the Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem mentioned. It's essential mathematics.

It's rare to see Garner's Modern English Usage mentioned. It's essential.

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