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A standard reference work throughout the English-speaking world, this work is remarkable not only for the completeness of its information but for the wit and common sense with which it has been compiled. Amazon.com Review 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--from burgle to brood , truffle to turgid . Would that we could quote them all, but we can't resist a couple. Here Fowler lays i

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Author

H. W. Fowler, Sir Ernest Gowers

Publisher

Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192813893

Category

reference

Subjects

Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Education

Rating

4.21 / 5 (543 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14