Feb 18, 2005 · White of being a linguistic hypocrite. One of the sternest strictures delivered in Strunk & White's stupid little book is the prohibition on the ...
Oct 28, 2004 · Regular readers will be able to name my least favorite book in the world: it is Strunk & White's The Elements of Style, a horrid little ...
Feb 18, 2004 · The second word in Roger Angell's Foreword to the 4th edition of Strunk and White is an attributive adjective. In E. B. White's introduction to ...
Jan 15, 2005 · ... being apparently mandatory) emails me to say he had not heard about Strunk and White's The Elements of Style until I mentioned it.
May 31, 2004 · The mantra is "Omit needless words," stated on page 23 of Strunk and White's poisonous little collection of bad grammatical advice, ...
Sep 22, 2005 · E.B. White's fever-dream description of William Strunk Jr., from the introduction to the 1979 edition of their parvum opus, suggests that some ...
Jan 24, 2007 · That's short for "omit needless words", Will Strunk's famous injunction to writers. Until today, I hadn't realized there was an ONW poem, ...
Feb 19, 2005 · Strunk to the modern liberal of the English Department, the anything-goes fellow. Your letter expresses contempt for this fellow, but on the ...
Oct 16, 2005 · In Friday's WSJ OpinionJournal, David Gelernter was unhappy about the new illustrated edition of Strunk and White:.
Feb 22, 2005 · In Strunk's Horrid Little Book, the latter usage is forbidden. E. B. White revised the Horrid Little Book (which he had purchased when he took a ...