These notes are a miscellany of grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage I put together for my classes. Nothing here is carved in stone, and many comments are matters of personal preference — feel free to psychoana
WordCount is an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness.
Examples for note [N], bibliographic entry [B], parenthetical citation [P], and reference list entry [R] are color coded throughout. From the publisher, University of Chicago Press.