A Dictionary of Modern English Usage2nd Edition

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage FowlersModernEnglishUsageFrontispiece.jpg The title page of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926). Author H. W. Fowler Country United Kingdom Language English Published 1926 Publisher Oxford University Press OCLC 815620926 Style guides OED2 volumes.jpg ACS Style Guide AMA Manual of Style AP Stylebook APA Style The ASA Style Guide The Business Style Handbook The Cambridge Guide to English Usage The Chicago Manual of Style Citing Medicine The Elements of Style The Elements of Typographic Style Fowler's Modern English Usage IEEE style ISO 690 MHRA Style Guide The Microsoft Manual of Style MLA Handbook The New York Times Manual The Oxford Guide to Style/New Hart's Rules Scientific Style and Format (CSE style) The Sense of Style Turabian: A Manual for Writers List of style guide abbreviations vte 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 such as plurals and literary technique, distinctions among like words (homonyms and synonyms), and the use of foreign terms, the dictionary became the standard for other guides to writing in English. Hence, the 1926 first edition remains in print, along with the 1965 second edition, edited by Ernest Gowers, and reprinted in 1983 and 1987. The 1996 third edition, re-titled as The New Fowler's Modern English Usage (revised in 2004) was mostly rewritten by Robert W. Burchfield, as a usage dictionary that incorporated corpus linguistics data;[1] and the 2015 fourth edition, re-titled Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage, edited by Jeremy Butterfield, takes the same approach as the third edition (and only revised some entries). Informally, users refer to the dictionary as Fowler's Modern English Usage, Fowler, and Fowler's.