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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
The title page of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)
Author
H. W. Fowler
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Published
1926
Publisher
Oxford University Press
OCLC
815620926
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), by Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933), is a style guide to British English usage, pronunciation, and writing. Covering topics such as plurals and literary technique, distinctions among like words (homonyms and synonyms), and the use of foreign terms, the dictionary became the standard for other style guides to writing in English. Hence, the 1926 first edition remains in print, along with the 1965 second edition, edited by Ernest Gowers, which was reprinted in 1983 and 1987. The 1996 third edition was re-titled as The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, and revised in 2004, was mostly rewritten by Robert W. Burchfield, as a usage dictionary that incorporated corpus linguistics data;[1] and the 2015 fourth edition, revised and re-titled Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage, was edited by Jeremy Butterfield, as a usage dictionary. Informally, readers refer to the style guide and dictionary as Fowler's Modern English Usage, Fowler, and Fowler's.
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Practical EnglishUsage is a standard reference book aimed at foreign learners ofEnglish and their teachers written by Michael Swan. Published by Oxford...
recognized modern authority on the use of the English language Fowler, W. W.; Crystal, David (2009) [1926]. ADictionaryofModernEnglishUsage: The Classic...
Cambridge Guide to EnglishUsage by Pam Peters is ausagedictionary, giving an up-to-date account of the debatable issues ofEnglishusage and written style...
Adictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic...
"cold" both suggest qualities of salads. Fowler's DictionaryofModernEnglishUsage summarizes several other possible meanings of the metaphor: "Whether the...
on the Oxford EnglishDictionary (OED) – it is a separate dictionary which strives to represent faithfully the current usageofEnglish words. The Revised...
used by the speaker as a form of verbal aggression. Lexicographer Henry Watson Fowler writes in ADictionaryofModernEnglishUsage: Sarcasm does not necessarily...
Garner's Modern American Usage, a 2009 usage guide for contemporary American English by Bryan Garner ADictionaryofModernEnglishUsage, a 1926 usage guide...
Strunk & White's The Elements of Style and Fowler's ADictionaryofModernEnglishUsage, it applies science to the process of writing, and explains its prescriptions...
and "prudery." A style guide to British English usage, H.W. Fowler's ADictionaryofModernEnglishUsage, states in the first edition (1926) that applying...
This list comprises widespread modern beliefs about English language usage that are documented by a reliable source to be misconceptions. With no authoritative...
manuals such as Fowler's DictionaryofModernEnglishUsage or Garner's ModernEnglishUsage often prescribe appropriate usageof synonyms. Writers sometimes...
consisting ofa number of short question and answers, each illustrated by a Thurber drawing. "Inspired by Mr. H. W. Fowler's ADictionaryofModernEnglish Usage"...
subsequent writers quoting this form of the rhyme, which became common in American schools. ADictionaryofModernEnglishUsage discusses "i before e except...
/ American English". ieosetta.com. Archived from the original on October 13, 2010. H. W. Fowler (2001) ADictionaryofModernEnglishUsage. Oxford : Oxford...
"oremus Bible Browser". bible.oremus.org. Fowler, H.W. (1965). ADictionaryofModernEnglishUsage. London: Oxford University Press. p. 558. See entry at simile...
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