Garner's Modern American Usage Bryan A. Garner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

The answer to when or not is necessary seems to depend on the meaning of whether. So we're introducing Our Favorite Books, a feature that will appear occasionally on Grammar Monkeys. Garner's Modern American Usage by Bryan A. I think old Brian Garner just called you a moron. Garner's Modern American Usage (2009, pp. Garner's Modern American Usage says, meaning it is completely proper English. 857-858) makes the same “usually” argument. According to Garner's Modern American Usage, “To pronounce or write this word [height] as if it were heighth is less than fully literate.” Ouch. €Media” as a mass noun, taking a singular the way “furniture” does, has reached Stage 5 on the Language-Change Index, Bryan A. What is the state of writing today? Here's what he has to say: Thanks for your response! In this update of A Dictionary of Modern American Usage (1998), a contributor to The Chicago Manual of Style (2003) offers entries that discuss either a particular word or phrase, or larger issues of usage and style. Garner's Modern American Usage says that the “misuse” of “etc.” instead of “et al.” when people are involved is at Stage 3 of the five-stage Language-Change Index, meaning you'd get probation instead of jail for using it. I got an update from Bryan Garner today on the status of his appeal to editors and writers 'round the world to buy the new edition of Garner's Modern American Usage. Pick up any newspaper, magazine, or book, or look at a website, an email message, or a tweet, or examine a newsletter, a brochure, or a report.