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Michael Rowley · 11-26-2005, 07:43 AM

George:

I never heard of Fowler's

Modern English Usage by H. W. Fowler (1926) was the first and only edition by the author; a second edition, very sparingly revised, was edited by Ernest Gowers and was published in 1965. Fowler's Modern English Usage was a new book by the late R. W. Burchfield and published in 1995; it shouldn't strictly have been published as the 'third' edition of Fowler's Modern English Usage.

I think you can still get the 2nd edition.

11-26-2005, 07:43 AM	#1
Michael Rowley Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Ipswich (the one in England) Posts: 5,105	George: I never heard of Fowler's Modern English Usage by H. W. Fowler (1926) was the first and only edition by the author; a second edition, very sparingly revised, was edited by Ernest Gowers and was published in 1965. Fowler's Modern English Usage was a new book by the late R. W. Burchfield and published in 1995; it shouldn't strictly have been published as the 'third' edition of Fowler's Modern English Usage. I think you can still get the 2nd edition. __________________ Michael

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