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From: gvr@cs.brown.edu (George V. Reilly)
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Subject: Re: English grammars and related books
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Date: 3 Feb 90 20:58:36 GMT
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In article <13527@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> bathurst@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Bathurst) writes:
>Someone in this newsgroup asked about grammars, but I've forgotten
>his name.  Here's what I use:-
	[...]
>Gowers, E., 1973. The complete plain words. London: Peguin.
>(For many years unavailable in the U.S.; guess Penguin thought there
> was no market here for a book on how to write clearly.)

Actually, a revised edition (the third) was published in 1986.  This
edition was edited by Sidney Greenbaum and Janet Whitcup, and it is
also published by Penguin.
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