Bryan A. Garner

Garner's Modern American Usage, edited by Bryan Garner , is a usage guide for contemporary American English. Modern American Usage covers issues of usage, pronunciation, and style, from plurals and literary techniques to distinctions between...

In this article: Bryan Garner, David Foster Wallace, Geoffrey Pullum, Oxford Dictionary, Language Log, Oxford University Press, and John Simon

...Harper's Magazine, April 2001, pp. 39-58; repr. more fully in Wallace's book Consider the Lobster (2005). Editor's Column: Bryan Garner Counsels Appellate Lawyers and Judges on Effective Legal Writing (interview by Dorothy Easner), The...

In this article: University of Texas School of Law, United States, Oxford University Press, United States Supreme Court, David Foster Wallace, Democracy, and Bankruptcy

...Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges, the well-regarded book co-authored by United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan Garner, editor-in-chief of Black's Law Dictionary. Other academic and professional West titles just...

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"Illegal Alien" vs. "Undocumented Alien": Following up on Eugene's post, the always-helpful Bryan Garner concludes in his excellent resource, A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage: "The usual and preferable term in American English is illegal...

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" There's a word for such people, of course: "ultracrepidarian. " NAME: Bryan A. Garner | AGE: 50 | HOMETOWN: Dallas | QUALIFICATIONS: Author of Garner's Modern American Usage, the third edition of which was released in July; Garner...

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...on its respectability is divided. AHD says "a ways to go" is "acceptable but is usually considered informal. " But Bryan Garner, in "Garner's Modern American Usage," labels it "dialectal," and he doesn't mean that in a neutral way. In the...

In this article: Bryan Garner, John Russell Bartlett, Wendy's, New Jersey, Hamburger, Oxford English Dictionary, Tom Jones, and The American Heritage Dictionary

...did in my sentence (which could have read "different from the one"). In the forthcoming third edition of "Garner's Modern American Usage," Bryan Garner admits that "different than is sometimes idiomatic and even useful. " But on his new...

In this article: E.B. White, Bryan Garner, Roger Angell, Self-consciousness, Charles Mackay, American Heritage Dictionary, Garner's Modern American Usage, and The Elements of Style

On Friday morning, before a packed ballroom at the Texas Bar Association's annual meeting in Dallas, Scalia and Dallas attorney Bryan Garner playfully argued about the proper ways to write legal briefs and argue before judges. They spoke for...

In this article: Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court, Dallas, and Bryan Garner

...tradition and reliability of Black s Law Dictionary is enhanced with its 9th Edition, now available from West. Edited by Bryan A. Garner, the 9th Edition of Black s contains more than 45,000 terms, including 2,500 new entries for terms...

In this article: Black's Law Dictionary, United States Supreme Court, and Minnesota

...of money someone will pay you to do it. At some point it has to be good enough, and you have to stop. " "Garner on Language and Writing," by Bryan A. Garner (American Bar Association, $60, but worth it for 800 pages and a thorough index,...

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