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Language is a wild animal: rough, ambiguous, inconsistent in countless ways. But that just makes it all the more tempting to tame it. Many have tried, from sticklers for supposedly correct grammar to inventors of supposedly perfect languages; from software engineers working on machine translation to governments that see language management as politics by another means. But when you enter the lair of a wild beast, you can be lucky to escape with your wits. Join Lane Greene on a journey of discovery into the deep strangeness of language.

A brand-new edition of this classic guide on how to write with style—from the Economist's language columnist, Lane Greene. "A lovely book. I vigorously recommend it as an alternative to Strunk and White's The Elements of Style." —John McWhorter This new edition of Writing with Style offers...