Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style

by Benjamin Dreyer

W.E.B. DU BOIS Writer and civil rights activist. His surname is correctly rendered “Du Bois” and not (as for Tennessee Williams’s Blanche) “DuBois.” And it’s pronounced not “doo-BWAH” (which would be correct for Blanche) but “doo-BOYZ.”