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Fowler's Modern English Usage Dictionary

The book details:
  • Title: Fowler's Modern English Usage Dictionary.
  • Author(s): W.H. Flower revised by Sir Ernest Gowers.
  • Publisher: Oxford.
  • Language: American English.
  • Size: 23.64 Mb.
  • Format: PDF .
  • Date: 1983, 2 Edition.
  • Pages: 749.
  • ISBN: 0192813897.
A guide to precise phrases, grammar, and pronunciation can be key; it can even be admired. But beloved? Yet from its first appearance in 1926, Fowler's was just that. Henry Watson Fowler initially aimed his Dictionary of Modern English Usage, as he wrote to his publishers in 1911, at "the half-educated Englishman of literary proclivities who wants to know Can I say so-&-so?" He was of course obsessed with, in Swift's phrase, "proper words in their proper places.

" But having been a schoolmaster, Fowler knew that liberal doses of style, wit, and caprice would keep his manual off the shelf and in writers' hands. He also felt that description must accompany prescription, and that advocating pedantic "superstitions" and "fetishes" would be to no one's advantage. Adepts will have their favorite inconsequential entries.


This book fulfils the same process as an old-fashioned educated aunt, at least in so far as ('the safest way of dealing with "in so far" is to keep clear of it') the English language is concerned.

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