He was a contributor to The New Yorker magazine and a co-author of the English language style guide, The Elements of Style, which is commonly known as " Strunk & White.

Strunk and White have been proven wrong on this point by logical analysis of quantification in natural language ( like Pinker following Lewis and others above ) — distributive expressions are neither exclusively singular nor exclusively plural, they are typically indeterminate in number.

The Elements of Style ( 1918 ), also known as Strunk & White, by William Strunk, Jr. and E. B.

White, who had studied writing under Strunk in 1919, but had since forgotten " the little book " that he described as a " forty-three-page summation of the case for cleanliness, accuracy, and brevity in the use of English.

Macmillan and Company publishers subsequently commissioned White to revise the 41-year-old text of The Elements of Style ( 1918 ) for a 1959 edition ( Strunk had died in 1946 ).

White's expansion and modernization of Strunk's 1935 revised edition yielded the writing style manual informally known as Strunk & White, the first edition of which sold approximately two million copies in 1959.

The history of this writing manual is told in Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White ’ s The Elements of Style ( 2009 ), by Mark Garvey.

* NPR radio piece discussing illustrated Strunk & White book and musical adaptation.

Strunk was also active in a gathering known as the Manuscript Club, an " informal Saturday-night gathering of students and professors interested in writing ," where he met " a sensitive and deeply thoughtful young man named Elwyn Brooks White.

In written language, mentioned words or phrases often appear between quotation marks (" Chicago " contains three vowels ) or in italics ( When I say honey, I mean the sweet stuff that bees make ), and style authorities such as Strunk and White insist that mentioned words or phrases must always be made visually distinct in this manner.

Fowler's English Usage describes it as " ugly ", Strunk and White say that it " damages a sentence and often leads to confusion or ambiguity ", and the Chicago Manual of Style calls it " Janus-faced ".

" Strunk and White put it this way: " A participial phrase at the beginning of a sentence must refer to the grammatical subject.

Strunk and White offer this example: " As a mother of five, and with another on the way, my ironing board is always up.

White and William Strunk, Jr.

Strunk & White note that splices are sometimes acceptable when the clauses are short and alike in form, such as:

Many oft-cited style guides besides the APA Publication Manual, including the AP Stylebook, the NYT Manual, Fowler, The Guardian Style Guide, and Strunk & White, are curiously silent on the topic.

In a book that became popular in the 1950s, The Elements of Style, famed authors Strunk and White describe the first draft as being a less edited version of the final draft.

In their book, Strunk and White say, “ the first principal of composition is to foresee or determine the shape of what is to come and pursue that shape .” This shape is the draft that eventually becomes the finished work.

Whether being used as the creation of a less-edited final product ( Strunk and White ) or as a tool during the prewriting stage ( Elbow ), drafting is a necessary stage for the writer in the writing process.

In The Elements of Style, Strunk and White mis-apply the passive voice term to several active voice constructions ; Prof. Geoffrey Pullum writes:

The book pays explicit homage, in title and tone, to The Elements of Style, by Strunk & White and is considered a practical template promoting Edsger Dijkstra's structured programming discussions.

Strunk and White's The Elements of Style provides another kind of example, a misplaced modifier ( another participle ):

But after finding that his book On Writing had more useful and observant things to say about the craft than any book since Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, I have gotten over my own snobbery.

As the team lost many of its better players during World War I, Barrow encouraged owner Harry Frazee to purchase Stuffy McInnis, Wally Schang, Bullet Joe Bush, and Amos Strunk from the Philadelphia Athletics for $ 75, 000 ($ in current dollar terms ).

In Strunk v. United States,, the Supreme Court ruled that if the reviewing court finds that a defendant's right to a speedy trial was violated, then the indictment must be dismissed and / or the conviction overturned.

William Strunk Jr. ( 1 July 1869 – 26 September 1946 ) was a professor of English at Cornell University and author of the The Elements of Style ( 1918 ), which, after being revised and enlarged by his former student E. B.

Strunk was born and reared in Cincinnati, Ohio, the eldest of four surviving children of William and Ella Garretson Strunk.

Plank matched him until the ninth when Charlie Deal's fly ball was lost by Amos Strunk in the sun for a double.

Jud Strunk ( June 11, 1936-October 5, 1981 ) was an American singer, songwriter and comedian.

Born Justin Strunk, Jr. in Jamestown, New York, he was raised in Buffalo, New York, where as a small boy his showmanship became evident.

When Strunk performed this song on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ( seated on a stool and accompanying himself on banjo ), a bizarre decision was made to film his performance on a set resembling a lunar landscape, apparently to remind the audience that this song had been played on the moon.

Jud Strunk was a regular member of the Laugh-In cast during its last season ; he often reported fictitious sporting events direct " from Farmington, Maine.

One play upon this view was by William Strunk, Jr. and E. B.

Its founders were George S. Dickinson, Carl Engel, Gustave Reese, Helen Heifron Roberts, Joseph Schillinger, Charles Seeger, Harold Spivacke, Oliver Strunk, and Joseph Yasser ; its first president was Otto Kinkeldey, the first American to receive an appointment as professor of musicology ( Cornell, 1930 ).

This handbook of grammatical and stylistic guidance for writers of American English had been written and published in 1918 by William Strunk, Jr., one of White's professors at Cornell.

The complete history of The Elements of Style is detailed in Mark Garvey's Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style.

William Strunk, Jr., et al.

* 1869 – William Strunk, Jr., American author and educator ( d. 1946 )

* 1889 – Amos Strunk, American baseball player ( d. 1979 )

* Strunk, Oliver.

Strunk and White's The Elements of Style notes both uses.

Cornell University English professor William Strunk, Jr., wrote The Elements of Style in 1918, and privately published it in 1919, for in-house use at the university.

In The Elements of Style ( 1918 ), William Strunk concentrated on specific questions of usage — and the cultivation of good writing — with the recommendation " Make every word tell "; hence, the 17th principle of composition is the simple instruction: " Omit needless words.

" The 1959 edition features White's expansions of those sections, the " Introduction " essay ( derived from his magazine feature story about Prof. Strunk ), and the concluding chapter, " An Approach to Style ", a broader, prescriptive guide to writing in English.