Tuesday, July 01, 2008
"It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong." William Strunk, Jr. who was born today (July 1, 1869, Cincinnati, Ohio – September 26, 1946, Ithaca, New York.) Strunk was Professor of English at Cornell University and is best known as the author of the first editions of The Elements of Style, a best-selling guide to English usage. This book, printed as a private edition in 1918 for the use of his students, became a classic on the local campus, known as "the little book", and its successive editions revised by E.B. White have since sold over ten million copies.
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