The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style : A ...

18 and that, and which, and who
one newspaper story. One in every seven
sentences begins with “And.”
2. Lack
And (a conjunction: it connects
words, phrases, etc.) can mean also, in
addition, plus, together with, and as a
result. Sometimes and is incorrectly replaced
by “but” or “plus.” See BUT, 1;
PLUS.
Having more than one and in a series,
or enumeration, is not wrong and may
be necessary. An irrational avoidance of
and results in a common mistake. See Series
errors.
AND THAT, AND WHICH,
AND WHO. See THAT, 3; WHICH,
3; WHO, 2.
ANECDOTE and ANTIDOTE.
An anecdote is a short, often amusing,
account of an incident. An antidote is a
medicinal substance that counteracts a
poison. (Both words are Greek in origin.
The first is from anekdotos, unpublished,
from an-, not; ek-, out; and
dotos, given. The second is from antidotos,
antidote, from anti-, against, and the
same dotos.)
Occasionally the two words are
mixed up. This dialogue was said to
have taken place in a university class:
[Instructor:] If a person gets poisoned,
what do you do?
[Coed:] Give him an anecdote.
Laughter may be a good medicine, but
you can carry it too far.
ANNIVERSARY. One television
newscaster said of Romania, “This
weekend is the six-month anniversary of
the revolution.” Another said the Czechs
“were marking the one-month anniversary
of the bloody police crackdown.”
From a book: “As the unprecedented
prior restraint reached its two-week anniversary.
...”
They all spoke nonsense. Anniversary
stems from the Latin anniversarius,
which means returning yearly. The prefix,
anni-, originated in annus, year, out
of which developed the English words
annual and annuity. The suffix, -versary,
came from the Latin vertere, to turn.
So an anniversary is the yearly return
of the date of an event, or an observance
or celebration of the event on that date
in a later year. “Today is the tenth anniversary
of” an event is enough. “Tenyear
anniversary,” as some are saying, is
redundant.
A lesser period than a year may be
commemorated in other ways: “It is
six months since . . .” or “one month
since . . .” or “As two weeks passed since
the unprecedented prior restraint was
imposed. . . .”
If enough people deem it important
to commemorate an event of a recent
month, possibly a new word would be
useful. I nominate lunaversary. It allows
us to say, “Today is the first [or sixth] lunaversary
of” the given event. The prefix
is from luna, Latin for moon. Two-week
commemorations are not common.
ANOTHER. Another (adjective and
pronoun) is paradoxical, at times emphasizing
similarity, at other times emphasizing
difference. It can mean (1) one
more of the same kind (“I’ll have another
portion”) or (2) one that is different
(“They speak another language”).
Sometimes it can suggest (3) resemblance
(“This city is becoming another
Manhattan”) or (4) variations on a
theme (“We’ve had one problem after
another”).
Although a flexible word, it is not a
general substitute for additional, more,
or others. Some question its use with unequal
numbers. It is correct to say,
“We’re giving a $100 bonus to Betty and
another $100 to Charlie.” Another emphasizes
the likeness. What is questionable
is a use like this: “The Yanks scored
four runs in the first inning and another