style guide
There are two broad kinds of style guide. There is the generic type, containing advice on such things as whether to use “different from” or “different than”. And there is the specific type, ie specific to a particular publication. For example, should “internet” be spelled with a lower case “i”, or as “Internet”?. The specific style guide will tell you.
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Dreyer’s English: click the pic to be taken to the book on Amazon (affiliate link).
A no-nonsense style guide that manages to be both humorous and readable too.
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Reference books, by Terry Freedman
Should we all start using words incorrectly just because some people are either too lazy or ill-informed to use them properly?
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There are two broad kinds of style guide. There is the generic type, containing advice on such things as whether to use “different from” or “different than”. And there is the specific type, ie specific to a particular publication. For example, should “internet” be spelled with a lower case “i”, or as “Internet”?. The specific style guide will tell you.
You need both types, of course, but unfortunately it’s not quite as simple as your needing only two books or two documents.
