The Columbia guide to standard American English /

Wilson, Kenneth G. 1923

The Columbia guide to standard American English / Kenneth G. Wilson. - New York : Columbia University Press, c1993. - xv, 482 p. ; 25 cm.

A guide to effective writing suitable for the Americans. It answers questions of meaning, grammar, pronunciation, punctuation, and spelling in thousands of concise entries. It presents a systematic view of language as determined by context. It provides a chart of contexts and explains in which contexts a particular usage is appropriate.

023106988X (alk. paper)


English language--Usage--United States--Dictionaries.
English language--Usage--Dictionaries.
Americanisms--Dictionaries.

PE2835 / W746 1993

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