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One of the beauties of the Oxford English Dictionary (and of, say, A Grammar of the English Language , by George O. Curme) is that users are comforted by quotations from sources that are acknowledged paragons of English usage, writers like Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens, Scott, etc., even Hemingway.
Our book publishing activities have not shaken the earth beneath our or anyone else's feet: our bestseller by far has been the two-volume Grammar of the English Language , by George O. Curme (seven printings), with Richard Lederer's Colonial American English a close second (two printings).
(I hasten to say that although the Curme Grammar is a VERBATIM Book, my purpose in bringing it up is not to sell books but to contrast its content with that of the subject Grammar .)
Perhaps we are grumpier than usual because the two-volume Grammar of the English Language , by George O. Curme, Verbatim Books, (which is more comprehensive than A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language , by Quirk, Greenbaum, et al.), and VERBATIM itself are omitted from the section called Suggestions for Further Reading.
With regard to your review of his Oxford English Grammar , for me too, the traditional grammarians Jesperson, Curme, et al., do it right.