[9], Robert Burchfield on Gowers and Plain Words.
In 1908, on his fiftieth birthday, he married Jessie Marian Wills (1862–1930). Informally, users refer to the style guide and dictionary as Fowler's Modern English Usage, Fowler, and Fowler's.
. The second edition, titled Fowler's Modern English Usage, was published in 1965, revised and edited by Ernest Gowers. [9], The resulting Plain Words, a work 94 pages long, became an instant success, not only within the civil service but internationally. Fowler & Wells Company, American publishing house; See also. [13] In 1927 he became chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue. (c) Copyright Oxford University Press, 2013. . 1961.
Charles Fowler taught temporarily at the school during the illness of one of the house masters. While nominally continuing to hold his post, Gowers was attached to the Foreign Office working under Charles Masterman MP at Wellington House, Britain's top-secret wartime propaganda unit. Volume I A–M, volume II N–Z. The fourth edition, Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage, was published in 2015, edited by Jeremy Butterfield. Encyclopedia.
Before writing A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Henry W. Fowler and his younger brother, Francis George Fowler (1871–1918), wrote and revised The King's English (1906), a grammar and usage guide. [26] As a result, he wrote A Life for a Life? [7] He also sat for the Inner Temple Bar exam, which he passed in 1906.
Oxford University Press. His parents, the Rev. [13][18], In 1914, Fowler and his younger brother volunteered for service in the British army. [5] While Gowers's elder brother went to Africa, Gowers joined the colonial civil service and rose to become Governor of Uganda (1925–32) and Senior Crown Agent for the Colonies (1932–38). Want to master the English tenses? Its usage as "elegant variation" is also discouraged, as it is masquerading as a "formal word". . The Problem of Capital Punishment (1956),[26] of which H L A Hart wrote, "Certainly the publication of this report in England introduced altogether new standards of clarity and relevance into discussions of a subject which had too often been obscured by ignorance and prejudice. He opposed pedantry, and ridiculed artificial grammar rules unwarranted by natural English usage, such as bans on ending a sentence with a preposition; rules on the placement of the word only; and rules distinguishing between which and that. [11], The modernisation of A Dictionary of English Usage (1926) yielded the Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage (1999), edited by the lexicographer Robert Allen, which is based upon Burchfield's 1996 edition; the modernised edition is a forty per cent abridgement realised with reduced-length entries and the omission of about half the entries of the 1996 edition.
You could not be signed in, please check and try again. "Subjunctives". [9] He became chairman of the board of the hospital where his father had worked, the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases (now the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery), Queen Square, London, and was on the board of Le Court Cheshire Home near Petersfield.