A Dictionary of Modern English Usage

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'Let me beg readers as well as writers to keep the revised Fowler at their elbows. It brims with useful information.' Raymond Mortimer, Sunday Times Fowler is a household name; for over fiítv years in successive editions Modern English Usage has been the standard work on the correct but easy and natural use of English, in speech or writing. Its influence has extended even to the battlefield: Churchill wrote to the Director of Military Intelligence about the plans for the invasion of Normandy, 'Whv must you use intensive here? Intense is the right word. You should read Fowler s Modern English Usage 011 the use of the two words.1 Now published in paperback for the first time, Modern English Usage deals with points of grammar, syntax, style, and the choice of words; with the formation of words and their spelling and inflexions; with pronunciation; and with punctuation and typography. Its great popularity is based not only on its usefulness, but alsó on its iconoclasm and wit. Fowler is at his most readable and funny on such unpromising subjects as split infinitives or 'the falsé first-personal ONE1, and when debunking affectation. Well-thumbed copies ofMEU will today fali open naturally at the indispensable entries on disi)iterested, due tojargon, sociologese, or which, that, who. This revised edition was undertaken by Sir Ernest Gowers (the author of Plain Words). Alsó in Oxford Paperback Reference The King's English The Oxford Guide to the English Language The Oxford Paperback Dictionary The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature isbn 0-1^-20130^- iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Vissza