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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jbe who wrote (1339)	5/29/1998 2:48:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4711

Hi jbe, I'm sitting here basking in the warmth of your words "our field". I don't even really know what a "style" book" is. I'm not a trained journalist or writer. I just love words. So most of my reference books are grammar-oriented; I still have my Harbrace's Grammar from college, and I use the boys' Writers Inc for a more modern frame of reference and Fowler's New English Usage. Everything else is just a motley assortment of anything I can find on words and language. A random sample sitting next to me at the moment: Merriam-Webster Book of Word Histories Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary (Unusual Obscure preposterous Words) Et Cetera, Et Cetera (Notes of a Word-watcher)- Lewis Thomas Poplollies and Bellibones Mother Tongue (my favorite)-Bryson Thereby Hangs a Tale (Curious Word Origins)-Funk Heavens to Betsy (and other curious sayings)-Funk dictionaries in several languages Le Mot Juste- (common foreign phrases) and a great many more of that type of thing on the shelves in back of me. Yes-my name is penni and I am a non-recovering bookaholic married to a serious enabler. And I bet half of you fellow-addicts out there want to come visit my bookshelves.