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dbarrow
09-28-2006, 10:19 AM
http://news.com.com/Arbiter+of+grammar%2C+style+goes+online/2100-1032_3-6120571.html?tag=newsmap

...And so starting Thursday the manual--sometimes known as publishing's Miss Manners--will be available online by subscription, meaning that those who need to know, pronto, whether it is ever all right to capitalize the first letters of e. e. cummings's name will no longer have to search through the more than 956-page volume to find the answer....

*Lina, this is for you. I suppose we can ante up the $25 subscription.

mommalina
09-28-2006, 10:35 AM
http://news.com.com/Arbiter+of+grammar%2C+style+goes+online/2100-1032_3-6120571.html?tag=newsmap

*Lina, this is for you. I suppose we can ante up the $25 subscription.

Thanks, but no thanks. :)

I have a mountain of hard copies of grammar and punctuation books from the 50's through the 70's.

My huge, heavy Thorndike Barnhardt dictionary, circa 1979, beats the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary by a mile! It uses each word in a sentence so you truly understand the meaning and any nuances.

Lina