A dictionary of modern English usage / H.W. Fowler ; edited with an introduction and notes by David Crystal.
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TextPublication details: Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2009Description: xxxi, 784 p. 21 cmISBN: - 9780199535347
- PE 1628 .F829 2009
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Originally published: Oxford : The Clarendon Press, 1926. With new introd.
Includes bibliographical references.
Deals with the correct use of English language in terms of choice of words, grammar and style. Features David Crystal's examination of nearly 300 entries in detail offering a modern perspective on them, and showing how English has changed since the 1920's. He has reassessed Fowler's contribution in study of modern English language and with use of entertaining examples, he looks at Fowler's stated principles and the tensions between his prescriptive and descriptive temperaments.
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