A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), by Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933), is a style guide to British English usage, pronunciation, and writing...
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Garner's Modern English Usage (GMEU), written by Bryan A. Garner and published by Oxford University Press, is a usage dictionary and style guide (or 'prescriptive...
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comprehensive; two major ones are Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage and Garner's Modern English Usage. Language for specific purposes Nielsen (1994)...
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage (MWDEU) is a usage dictionary published by Merriam-Webster, Inc., of Springfield, Massachusetts. It is currently...
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Dictionary of English Usage. Penguin. 2002. p. 728. ISBN 9780877796336. Fowler, H.W. (2010). Crystal, David (ed.). A Dictionary of Modern English Usage. Oxford...
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Some English words are often used in ways that are contentious among writers on usage and prescriptive commentators. The contentious usages are especially...
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage Smith, N. (2006-01-01), Brown, Keith (ed.), "History of Linguistics: Discipline of Linguistics", Encyclopedia of...
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Practical English Usage is a standard reference book aimed at foreign learners of English and their teachers, written by Michael Swan. Published by Oxford...
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(OUP)—such as Henry Watson Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Hart's Rules, and The Oxford Guide to English Usage—also recommend -ize. However,...
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Expeditionary Unit, a military task force Model European Union, a politics education exercise A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, the style guide by...
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sense of the quotation, but otherwise to place punctuation outside the closing quotation marks. Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage provides...
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H. W. Fowler (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
English schoolmaster, lexicographer and commentator on the usage of the English language. He is notable for both A Dictionary of Modern English Usage...
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recognized modern authority on the use of the English language Fowler, W. W.; Crystal, David (2009) [1926]. A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic...
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or seduced. In A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), Fowler describes such sentences as unwittingly laying a "false scent". Such a sentence leads...
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Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage, compiled by the linguist and author Lin Yutang, contains over 8,100 character head entries and...
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"Ain't I" Usage Note". dictionary.com. Retrieved 9 June 2015. "less, fewer". Merriam-Webster's dictionary of English usage (2nd ed.). Merriam-Webster...
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Salad days (category English-language idioms)
"cold" both suggest qualities of salads. Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage summarizes several other possible meanings of the metaphor: Whether the...
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Nigger (category Use American English from October 2018)
and "prudery." A style guide to British English usage, H.W. Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, states in the first edition (1926) that applying...
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years Modern English Usage, which was written by Henry alone after Francis's death in 1918. The King's English is less like a dictionary than Modern English...
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Garner's Modern American Usage, a 2009 usage guide for contemporary American English by Bryan Garner A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, a 1926 usage guide...
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This list comprises widespread modern beliefs about English language usage that are documented by a reliable source to be misconceptions. With no authoritative...
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A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic...
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Sarcasm (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from November 2024)
used by the speaker as a form of verbal aggression. Lexicographer Henry Watson Fowler writes in A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: Sarcasm does not necessarily...
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Learner's Dictionary (OALD) was the first advanced learner's dictionary of English. It was first published in 1948. It is the largest English-language...
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Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish (Finnish: Kielitoimiston sanakirja, previously known as the New Dictionary of Modern Finnish) is the most recent dictionary...
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (2 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 725. ISBN 0-19-953534-5. "plurality". Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Retrieved...
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Strunk & White's The Elements of Style and Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, it applies science to the process of writing, and explains its prescriptions...
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Irony (category Use American English from January 2024)
pp. 108–109. Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926; reprinted to at least 2015)". The Oxford English Dictionary, "irony" Encyclopædia...
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Sic (section Modern usage)
/ American English". ieosetta.com. Archived from the original on October 13, 2010. H. W. Fowler (2001) A Dictionary of Modern English Usage. Oxford : Oxford...
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Parable (redirect from Modern parable)
"oremus Bible Browser". bible.oremus.org. Fowler, H.W. (1965). A Dictionary of Modern English Usage. London: Oxford University Press. p. 558. See entry at simile...
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