Ben Yagoda is an old LH favorite (e.g., 2015, 2022), so I was delighted to see that last week’s New Yorker included an essay of his (archived) on H. W. Fowler’s A Dictionary of Modern English Usage. It starts: In 1940, St. Clair McKelway typed a memo to William Shawn, The New Yorker’s managing editor […]
