Write It Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults
by Ambrose Bierce

Echo Library: 1986. Trade paperback: 74 pages. ISBN-10: 1-846377-40-4 Suggested retail price: $14.99 (US) Tags: Reference; usage; words; Writing Tactical strength: [3/10]

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A short, dictionary-style guide to word usage that reminds readers to carefully consider the meaning of the words one uses and to choose the precise meaning one wants. Although this might have been a good guide to follow at the end of the 19th Century, today this guide does little more than illustrate that the English language really does evolve. For example, Bierce labels the use of pants as vulgar and recommends trousers at the acceptable alternative.

I would not recommend this book to any looking for a modern usage guide. In fact, I don't see a good reason to recommend Write it Write, except to linguists studying changes in English.