Some Recommended Sources

• Author: Neil Guthrie
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By no means a comprehensive list, but some of the classics and some

sources specif‌ic to the legal context.

,    . Clarity for Lawyers: Ef‌fective Legal

Language (London: London Society Publications, 2017).

,  . The Seven Deadly Sins of Legal Writing

(Baltimore: Owlworks, 2008).

, . Typography for Lawyers: Essential Tools for

Polished & Persuasive Documents, 2d ed (Houston, TX: O’Con-

nor’s, 2015).

,  . The Dimwit’s Dictionary, 4th ed (Rock-

port: Vocabula Communications, 2014).

——— . Robert Hartwell Fiske’s Dictionary of Unendurable English:

A Compendium of Mistakes in Grammar, Usage, and Spelling

with Commentary on Lexicographers and Linguists (New York:

Scribner, 2011).

,    . The King’s English, 3d ed (London,

Oxford, & New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).

,    . New Fowler’s Modern English

Usage, 3d ed, rev (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998).

,     . A Dictionary of Modern Eng-

lish Usage, 2d ed, rev (Oxford & New York: Oxford University

Press, 1983).