TY - BOOK AU - Wilson,Kenneth G. TI - The Columbia guide to standard American English SN - 023106988X (alk. paper) AV - PE2835 W746 1993 U1 - 428 PY - 1993/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - English language KW - United States KW - Usage KW - Dictionaries KW - Americanisms N2 - A guide to effective writing suitable for the Americans. It answers questions of meaning, grammar, pronunciation, punctuation, and spelling in thousands of concise entries. It presents a systematic view of language as determined by context. It provides a chart of contexts and explains in which contexts a particular usage is appropriate ER -