2 of his classics with a fresh new look, invaluable reference guides as well as being thoroughly entertaining. 'The sort of linguistics I like, anecdotal, full of revelations, and with not one dull paragraph' Ruth Renell, }Sunday Times A guide to the problems of English usage and spelling. It lets you discover whether you should care about split infinitives, or were wondering if that newsreader was right to say 'an historic day'.