“By for Of. ‘A man by the name of Brown.’ Say, of the name. Better than either form is: a man named Brown.”
Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010.
“By for Of. ‘A man by the name of Brown.’ Say, of the name. Better than either form is: a man named Brown.”
Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010.