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Subject:Re: Strunk on the web is old and Whiteless From:"Wojcik, Richard H" <Rick -dot- Wojcik -at- PSS -dot- BOEING -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 2 Aug 1999 08:05:33 -0700
Quite right, Mark, and thanks for correcting the misimpression that I gave.
I am still quite familiar with Strunk & White, which sits on my
bookshelf--the 1959 edition. And it is still recommended reading for all.
However, that is not to say that I fully approve the content. Caveat
lector.
The version on the web is actually not very different from the edition
revised and augmented by White. Many of White's changes were quite modest,
and they are detailed in the beginning of the book.
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> Subject: Strunk on the web is old and Whiteless
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> Richard writes:
> I'm well aware of Strunk and White.
> You can find an on-line link to it on my Linguistics and Language
> web page: http://home1.gte.net/rwojcik/linguistics.html.
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> ** Actually, like any copy of _The Elements of Style_ that you find
> legally posted on the web, this is the one written solely by
> Strunk. As the link notes, it's from 1918. White was a student
> of Strunk's, and when White produced his first edition Strunk was
> no longer alive to approve or demur.
>
> What you buy at a bookstore today will be Strunk & White, what
> you'll find on the web will be straight old-fashioned Strunk.
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