A dictionary of contemporary American usage
By: by Bergen Evans and Cornelia Evans.
Contributors: Evans, Cornelia, joint author.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1957
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 567
Subjects: Americanisms -- Dictionaries; English language -- Usage -- Dictionaries; English language -- United States -- Usage -- Dictionaries
Other titles: Contemporary American usage.
Description: Lively and readable, this book provides clear answers to questions of grammar, word preferences, effective style, punctuation, idiomatic phrases, spelling and literally thousands of similar problems that arise frequently in the use of the English language.