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I have to admit I was completely ignorant of this problem with "if not" until now, but Bryan Garner points out that "if not" can sometimes mean "maybe even" (which is more common, as in "Truman may go down in history as one of the greatest if not the greatest president"), sometimes "though not" (as in "Kwan's short program, adequately if not flawlessly executed . . ." [Garner's examples].) Bernstein notes that "if not" is acceptable in speech because the intonation we use makes it clear what we mean. But apparently it's a phrase that careful writers want to avoid.
From The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Styleby Bryan Garner. Copyright 1995 by Bryan A. Garner. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc., www.oup-usa.org. and used with the gracious consent of Oxford University Press.
Authority: The Careful Writer by Theodore Bernstein. The Free Press: New York. 1998.
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