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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
''A Dictionary of Modern English Usage'' (1926), by Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933), is a style guide to British English usage, pronunciation, and writing. Covering topics including plurals and literary technique, distinctions among like words (such as homonyms and synonyms), and the use of foreign terms, it became the standard for most style guides that followed. Thus, the 1926 first edition remains in print, despite the existence of the 1965 second edition (edited by Ernest Gowers, and reprinted in 1983 and 1987), and later versions. The 1996 third edition, as ''The New Fowler's Modern English Usage'' (with a revised third in 2004) was mostly rewritten by Robert W. Burchfield, as a usage dictionary incorporating corpus linguistics data;〔Third edition preface, page xi〕 the 2015 fourth edition (''Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage'', edited by Jeremy Butterfield) follows similar principles to the third. In whatever edition, the work is informally known as ''Fowler’s Modern English Usage'', ''Fowler'', and ''Fowler’s''.
==Linguistic approach==
In ''A Dictionary of Modern English Usage'', Henry W. Fowler’s general approach encourages a direct, vigorous writing style, and opposes all artificiality, by firmly advising against convoluted sentence construction, the use of foreign words and phrases, and the use of archaisms. 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''. He classified and condemned every cliché, in the course of which he coined and popularised the terms ''battered ornament'', ''Wardour Street'', ''vogue words'', and ''worn-out humour'', while defending useful distinctions between words whose meanings were coalescing in practice, thereby guiding the speaker and the writer away from illogical sentence construction, and the misuse of words. In the entries "Pedantic Humour" and "Polysyllabic Humour" Fowler mocked the use of arcane words (archaisms) and the use of long words.
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