Some Books for Wordsmiths

Bryson, Bill: Mother Tongue: The English Language.

English, Kathy & Nick Russell: Page One: Best of the NNA.

Evans, Rod & Irwin Berent: Getting Your Words Worth.

Hale, Constance: Sin and Syntax.

Kacirk, Jeffrey: The Word Museum.

LaRocque: The Book on Writing.

McDonald, James: Dictionary of Obscenity, Taboo & Euphemism.

(National Newspaper Awards): Page 1: Journalism Excellence: NNA 1999.

Richler, Howard: A Bawdy Language.

Thain, Chris: Cold as a Bay Street Banker’s Heart.

Truss, Lynne: Eats, Shoots & Leaves.

Zinsser, William: On Writing Well.

Other writers on language worth looking for:

Theodore Bernstein, Peter Bowler, Ivor Brown, Willard Espy, Ernest Gowers, Philip Howard, Lederer, Richard, Richard Mitchell, Robert MacNeil, Eric Partridge, William Safire.

 Compiled by Nick Russell -2004