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• mike - Apr 24 2007 | english, writing, reference, usage, andy rooney, 60 minutes, books

  Andy Rooney says "if you do any writing at all, you can't be without this."

  Quoted: For generations, lovers of the English language have turned to trusty copies of Fowler's to settle nagging grammatical questions, or, for true hard-core language junkies, for the sheer fun of reading H. W. Fowler's classic outrage contained in entries on "Hackneyed Phrases" or "Pedantic-Humour Words."
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  The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, the first revision in more than 30 years, has not arrived without controversy. Some language (and Fowler) purists complain that the book is too liberal at times, noting that usage is common as opposed to correct. Those points are debatable, and, indeed, they're what makes the book's nearly 900 pages so interesting to peruse.
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  Amazon.com: Fowler's Modern English Usage: Books: R. W. Burchfield by R. W. Burchfield

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