Originally published in hardcover by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1996

Preface to the fourth edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Woe is I Therapy for pronoun anxiety -- Plurals before swine Blunders with numbers -- Yours truly The possessives and the possessed -- They beg to disagree Putting verbs in their place -- Verbal abuse Words on the endangered list -- Spellbound How to be letter perfect -- So to speak Talking points on pronunciation -- Comma sutra The joy of punctuation -- The compleat dangler A fish out of water -- Death sentence Do cliches deserve to die? -- The living dead Let bygone rules be gone -- Saying is believing How to write what you mean

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