Garner's Modern English Usage

Garner, B. A. (2016). Garner's Modern English Usage. Oxford University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2016

Link

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20030555W not authoritativefound

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Domain-specific

• Begging the Question
  • Not "raising the question" or "inviting the question." The phrase is now widely used to mean "prompts one to ask" ("the delay begs the question of why no one acted")

    This sourceDocuments that 'beg the question' is now widely used to mean 'invite an obvious follow-up question', grading it on Garner's Language-Change Index at Stage 4 ('ubiquitous but ...').

    Supported in partVerified against a saved copy of the source

    “beg the question for invite the follow-up question: Stage 4”

    Read by an automated reader; not a human review. How support was checked

• Skunked term
  • A skunked term is a usage label, coined by Bryan Garner, for an expression so contested or semantically transitional that a substantial audience may reject or misunderstand either major use.

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