A Dictionary of Modern English Usage

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Wordsworth 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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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

follow into Misprints
177
For forc Inverted commas morale
233
probable
612
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