A Keeper

"Elements of Style" by Strunk and White has always been a favorite book of mine, but I found this great little red book at a garage sale.  You open it up to the title page and it elaborates:  "for the use of STENOGRAPHERS, STUDENTS, AUTHORS AND PROOFREADERS".  It's compiled by Louis A. Leslie.   It was originally copyrighted in 1934.

Thank you Louis A.  Leslie.  Not only because you narrowed down the English language to 20,000 words, which were carefully selected to represent the "useful part of an ordinary dictionary vocabulary of several times that number," but you have this nifty appendix of rules on spelling and grammar.   Really nifty.

I'm going to review one spelling and grammar rule each week with Zoe.  This is a fun way to learn it. Rule number one is already on the board. The book is the size of a three by five card, too.

I love garage sales.