The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005. — 528 p. — ISBN-10: 0618604995, ISBN-13: 978-0618604999The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style is a comprehensive survey of controversies and conundrums in English usage, grammar and style. Written by the editors of The American Heritage Dictionary, the Guide discusses an extensive variety of languge problems, includingtraditional bugbears, such as disinterested and lay vs. lie
commonly confused words like impinge and infringe
emerging controversies, such as seeking clousure and begging the question
pronunciation problems, like forte and nuclear
grammatical pitfalls, such as pronoun agreement and dangling modifiers
diferences between popular and technocal uses of terms like relativity and exponential growth
style hazards, like redundancies and faulty parallelsFeaturing 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 to use - the English Language.