From the San Francisco Chronicle
Geoffrey Nunberg's most treasured book
Geoffrey Nunberg, linguist and professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information
I have an early edition of Fowler's 1926 Modern English Usage that I picked up at the Strand Bookstore in New York when I was in graduate school. It's a wonderful palliative for the simplistic pieties of Strunk and White: witty, quirky and gently forbearing toward all but the purists and their "shibboleths," "superstitions" and "battered ornaments."...