Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style

Authoritative advice from the editors of America's favorite dictionary and its renowned Usage Panel

The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style is a comprehensive survey or controversies and conundrums in English usage, grammar, and style. Written by the editors of "The American Heritage" Dictionary, the Guide discusses in extensive variety of language problems, including:

• traditional bugbears as disinterested and lay vs. fie • commonly confused words like impinge and infringe • emerging controversies, such as seeking closure and begging the question • pronunciation problems, like forte and nuclear • grammatical pitfalls, such as pronoun agreement and dangling modifiers • differences between popular and technical uses of terms like relativity and exponential growth • style hazards, like redundancies and faulty parallels

Featuring the opinions of the American Heritage Usage Panel, a unique group of 200 prominent writers, scholars, and scientists, the Guide is an indispensable resource on how best to use-and not use-the English language. Have you ever honed in on a problem, and wondered if you should have homed in on it instead? If you were nonplussed by it, were you overwhelmed, or were you unimpressed? You may have been reluctant to take it on, but could you be described as reticent to take it on? The American Heritage® Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style answers hundreds of questions like these, questions that writers are bound to confront sooner or later. The Guide teases apart word confusions, explains differences between scientific and lay uses of words, defines grammatical terms and linguistic processes, makes rulings on controversial pronunciations, and shows the way around a variety of stumbling blocks to clear and effective expression. The Guide also provides sensible rules for punctuation, capitalization, and other styling issues. Hundreds of examples and quotations, from both canonical literary texts and from distinguished writers on the contemporary scene, illustrate correct and effective usage. For many usage controversies, the American Heritage® Usage Panel offers its opinions. This group of 200 prominent writers, scholars, and scientists is polled regularly on traditional and emerging usage problems, giving writers a deeper understanding of how readers may react to particular expressions. With clear explanations, elegant examples, and the discerning judgments of the Usage Panel, this book provides authoritative and sensible advice on language use for writers in every field of endeavor. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Clear, up-to-date definitions, unparalleled guidance in English usage, and a stunning page design are hallmarks of this American classic. With 10,000 new words and senses, over 4,000 full-color photos and drawings, entertaining notes on regional American English, and a new Appendix of Semitic Roots, The American Heritage® Dictionary offers you a rich and multifaceted resource for learning about our language. This all-new Fourth Edition presents the very best that a college dictionary can offer. Every aspect of the Dictionary has been updated and revised. It has 7,500 new words and senses, 2,500 new photos and drawings, updated definitions in all subject areas, authoritative usage guidance, a revised Appendix of Indo-European Roots, and a handy new Style Guide. The American Heritage® College Thesaurus. Organized in an easy-to-use A-to-Z format, The American Heritage® College Thesaurus provides a wide range of synonyms, from mainstream vocabulary to informal words and slang. Each synonym list is introduced by a clear definition that quickly orients the user to the relevant meaning. Core synonym paragraphs explain the different nuances in meaning among important synonyms. Finding the right word has never been easier.


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