In message , mechanic
writes:
On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 19:46:42 -0500, Wolf K wrote:

IMO, Strunk & White's _Elements of Style_ is still the best short
guide to writing well available.

[Would they have suggested "...available to writing well"?
"well available" is a little jarring, to me anyway. (-:]

Yes no doubt it's Lee Child's bedtime reading.

I _think_ it's a little US-specific - not that that's wrong of course;
we both have our preferences. For UK audiences, Eric Partridge's "Usage
and Abusage", and Fowler's "Modern English Usage" (IIRR), are probably
the best-known - if only because people enjoy disagreeing with them!

(Partridge's "Mind the Stop" - specifically about punctuation - is also
seminal. Though almost certainly not definitive.)

(It also amuses me that a fowler would by nature pursue a partridge.)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

I long for the commercialised Christmas of the 1970s. It's got so religious
now, it's lost its true meaning. - Mike [{at}ostic.demon.co.uk], 2003-12-24