Title: The best usage dictionary: readable and fun
Review: It isn't often that "fun" describes grammar and usage books, but Fowler's Modern English Usage has been at the top of its class since its first edition. Perhaps the best way to give you the flavor of its writing is with an example: "Split infinitive. The English-speaking world may be divided into (1) those who neither know nor care what a split infinitive is; (2) those who do not know, but care very much; (3) those who know and condemn; (4) those who know and distinguish. 1. those who neither know nor care are the vast majority, and are a happy folk, to be envied by most of the minority classes ...." He then goes on to say why it might be a good idea to know, and what that would mean. Sprightly, gentle, fun, a little pedantic, a little old fashioned: here is the English composition teacher you wish you had.
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