A Dictionary of Modern English UsageWordsworth Editions, 1994 - 742 páginas 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. |
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Contenido
only | 1 |
ex ix if when Literary words | 11 |
otherwise | 26 |
ought | 44 |
Facetious formations in ine lord | 51 |
our | 64 |
Out of the fryingpan | 93 |
Parallelsentence dan | 101 |
Parenthesis | 401 |
Participles | 423 |
Perfect infinitive | 429 |
phile | 435 |
Plural anomalies | 441 |
Positive words | 450 |
Presumptuous | 459 |
Slipshod extension | 540 |
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ABLE adjective adverb analogy archaic archaism BACK-FORMATION BATTERED ORNAMENT better blunder chiefly common confusion contexts correct dictionary DIDACTICISM differentiation distinction doubt EDLY ELEGANT VARIATION ELLIPSIS established examples expressed fact FALSE ETYMOLOGY FALSE QUANTITY feminine FORMAL WORDS Four syllables FRENCH FRENCH WORDS GALLICISMS gerund gives grammar Greek HACKNEYED PHRASES HUMOUR hyphen idiom idiomatic IE &c inflexions see VERBS inversion LATIN PLURALS less lished literary matter meaning ment modern MUTE MUTE E natural NEEDLESS VARIANT ness no-one normal NOUN & VERB nounced nunciation object one's ordinary original participle pedantic perhaps periphrasis person popular preferred preposition pron Pronounce pronunciation question quotations rare reader sense sentence singular sometimes sound spelling spelt split infinitive subjunctive substitute synonyms synonymy TECHNICAL TERMS thing tion tive usage usually VERB ACCENT VERBS IN IE vowel writers wrong