The Elements of Style

[ericgregory]

Geoffrey Pullum delivers an overdue smackdown to Strunk & White (and many senseless grammatical maxims) in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Comments

[abulia]

yes please, because i get sick of hearing people who think they're smart "correct" grammatical "mistakes" or missteps that are really in no way incorrect. it's rather like taking the whole bible literally, rather than absorbing the spirit of the guidelines.

[silentplaces]

...in both cases, I think people are looking for something they know that other people don't, rather than for something worth knowing.