Write It Right: By for Of

Posted on July 13, 2021 | Leave a comment

“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.

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