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Title: A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (The Oxford Library of English Usage ; V. 2) by Henry Watson Fowler ISBN: 0198691157 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 1987 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.54

Rating: 5
Summary: A unique reference book
Comment: The historic quaintness of its grammar informs me and often makes me titter while reminding me of my birthright. No home should be without a copy no matter who the reader or their diction.

Rating: 5
Summary: The best usage dictionary: readable and fun
Comment: It isn't often that "fun" describes grammar and usage books, but Fowler's Modern English Usage has been at the top of its class since its first edition. Perhaps the best way to give you the flavor of its writing is with an example: "Split infinitive. The English-speaking world may be divided into (1) those who neither know nor care what a split infinitive is; (2) those who do not know, but care very much; (3) those who know and condemn; (4) those who know and distinguish. 1. those who neither know nor care are the vast majority, and are a happy folk, to be envied by most of the minority classes ...." He then goes on to say why it might be a good idea to know, and what that would mean. Sprightly, gentle, fun, a little pedantic, a little old fashioned: here is the English composition teacher you wish you had.

Rating: 5
Summary: An Authoratative Guide
Comment: The idiomatic use of the English language needs a referee, and some referees are simply better than others. The "anything goes" motto of our times gives us uneven, illiterate, and occasionally brutal prose. This book helps block this inevitable slide into the lack of clarity and coherence. This second edition (cf., Third Edition) of "Modern English Usage" may strike some readers as arcane and archaic, because it is so restrictive in its prescriptions. Given the laxity of many our writers, the use of a strict disciplinarian in philology is a welcome resource.

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