词汇 | according to fowler |
词源 | according to Fowler. Many disputes about proper English usage are settled with the words, “according to Fowler. . . .” The authority cited is Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933), author of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926). Fowler, a noted classicist and lexicographer, and his brother, F. G. Fowler, col- laborated on a number of important books, including a one- volume abridgement of the Oxford English Dictionary (1911). But Modern English Usage is his alone. The book remains a standard reference work, though some of the old schoolmaster’s opinions are debatable. Margaret Nicholson’s A Dictionary of American English Usage, Based on Fowler, is its American coun- terpart. The Fowlers’ trenchant and witty book on modern En- glish usage (1906) was entitled The King’s English, but it is often called simply Fowler’s today. Death ended the grand grammari- ans’ collaborations in 1918 when Francis Fowler, the older brother, was killed in World War I. |
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