The Columbia Guide to Standard American Englisch

A vigorous assessment of how our language is best written and spoken and how we can use it most effectively, this guide is the ideal handbook of language etiquette: friendly, sensible, reliable, and fun to read. Its 6,500 entries contain thousands of examples, both descriptive and prescriptive, and feature 4,300 hyperlinked cross-references.

Date of Printout 1993.

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The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993