Arnold Zwicky et al. aside ...

[Robert Hartwell Fiske]

However curmudgeonly, Mr. Fiske betrays a bluff humanitarian spirit.  ...
[Fiske] wants to save [the English language].  And he knows that he can count on
little help.  Dictionaries "have virtually no standards, offer scant guidance,
and advance only misunderstanding."  His own flogging of Merriam-Webster's is
one of the many pleasures of this lovely, sour, virtuous book. -- Erich
Eichman in Wall Street Journal (Nov. 12)

The Dictionary of Disagreeable English -- it's an annoying, amusing book.


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