Bryan Garner - Garners Modern English Usage

Bryan A. Garner

This book is a successor to three editions (1998, 2003, 2009) of Garner's Modern American Usage.

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To my beloved brothers,

Bradley Alan Garner

Cincinnati Conservatory of Music

Cincinnati, Ohio

Blair Arthur Garner

America's Morning Show

Nashville, Tennessee

and

In memory of my late friends and mentors, all of whom I dearly miss

Professor Sheridan Baker (19182000)

The University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Dr. Robert W. Burchfield (19232004)

Editor in Chief, The Oxford English Dictionary Department

The University of Oxford

Hon. Thomas Gibbs Gee (19251994)

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Houston, Texas

Professor Alan M.F. Gunn (19061989)

Texas Tech University Department of English

Lubbock, Texas

Tex Lezar, Esq. (19482004)

Former colleague at Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal

Dallas, Texas

Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Megarry (19102006)

Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court (U.K.)

Lincoln's Inn, London

Professor Roy M. Mersky (19252008)

Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas

Austin, Texas

Professor Pat Sullivan (19242008)

West Texas A&M Department of English

Canyon, Texas

Professor John W. Velz (19302008)

The University of Texas Department of English

Austin, Texas

David Foster Wallace (19622008)

Pomona College Department of English

Claremont, California

Professor Charles Alan Wright (19272000)

The University of Texas School of Law

Austin, Texas