Henry W Fowler

Henry W. Fowler

• Author(s): James K. Meritt

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1966
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Works of William Fowler ... Edited with Introduction, Appendix, Notes and Glossary by Henry W. Meikle. (vol. 3. Edited by H. W. Meikle, James Craigie and John Purves.).

• Author(s): William FOWLER (Secretary to Anne, Queen Consort of James I.), James CRAIGIE (Head of the English Department, Musselburgh Grammar School.), Henry William MEIKLE, John PURVES (Lecturer in Italian, Edinburgh University.), Scottish Text Society (EDINBURGH). Fowler (William) Secretary to Anne, Queen Consort of James I.

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1914
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Find it in Fowler, an Alphabetical Index to the Second Edition (1965) of H. W. Fowler's Modern English Usage

• Author(s): Joseph Arthur Greenwood

• Categories: English language

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1969
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Notes on Mr. William Fowler, of Winterton, and His Works. [Signed: H.W.B., I.e. Henry William Ball.].

• Author(s): Henry William BALL, William FOWLER (of Winterton.)

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1869
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• Publisher: Unknown

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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage

• Author(s): Henry Watson Fowler

• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1994
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• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

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.