Product Description
Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage (fourth edition)
Editor/s: Jeremy Butterfield
Format: Hardcover
Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage is the world-famous guide to English usage, loved and used by writers, editors, and anyone who values correct English since it first appeared in 1926.
Fowler's gives comprehensive and practical advice on complex points of grammar, syntax, punctuation, style, and word choice.
Now enlarged and completely revised to reflect English usage in the 21st century, it provides a crystal-clear, authoritative picture of the English we use, while illuminating scores of usage questions old and new. International in scope, it gives in-depth coverage of both British and American English usage issues, with reference also to the English of Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, and South Africa.
Based on the evidence and research of the Oxford Dictionaries Programme, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to usage available.
Features:
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Expert advice on thousands of issues of grammar, style, spelling, punctuation, and vocabulary
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Major new edition of Fowler's indispensable dictionary, the most trusted and respected English usage guide
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Completely revised and updated to reflect current English and concerns about usage
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Contains detailed explanations and clear recommendations to help readers make informed choices
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Thousands of example sentences illustrate the issues discussed
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Draws on Oxford's unrivalled dictionary research and language monitoring
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Major new edition of Fowler's indispensable dictionary, the most trusted and respected English usage guide
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Completely revised and updated to reflect usage in the twenty-first century
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Draws on gigantic and unique database of modern, international English, the Oxford English Corpus
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Many new entries, including ageism, angsty, at this moment in time, blog, bullet points, challenging, dominatrix, double whammy, and many more.
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