This book contains 25 essays about English words, and how they are defined, valued, and discussed. The book is divided into four sections. The first section, "L
With more than a thousand new entries and more than 2,300 word-frequency ratios, the magisterial fourth edition of this book-now renamed Garner's Modern English
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of