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Styling your style guide: Christmas gifts for stylish writing

  The 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style (CMoS) was published this year. There are of course many wonderful style guides: some are listed here. But The CMoS is the one I’m after — just look at the lovely colours on that cover! (I’ve still got the orange 15th edition; I think this …

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Posted byMarian Dougan15 December 20108 July 2014Posted inBooks, EnglishTags: Books, Christmas, christmas gifts, CMoS, English, fashion, gifts, jewellery, style guides1 Comment on Styling your style guide: Christmas gifts for stylish writing

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