[lit-ideas] Usage in the USA?

  • From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:47:00 -0400

Helen wrote that she was "mending comma splices in a swamp."


Perhaps someone can explain to me why the head of Random House Trade Publishing editorial once told me to avoid the third edition of _Fowler's Modern English Usage_ and stick to "the excellent second edition"? And why he thought the Chicago Manual 14th was less than stellar?


Not enough thistles on my bottom,
Eric

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