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	Henry Fowler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry the Fowler (876 — 936), a German king.
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		Sir Henry Fowler, (1870 — 1938) locomotive engineer associated with the Midland Railway and London Midland and Scottish Railway.
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	Henry Watson Fowler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry Watson Fowler (10 March 1858 - 26 December 1933) was an English schoolmaster, lexicographer and commentator on usage of English.
		Fowler and his younger brother volunteered for service in the British army in 1914, with the 56-year-old Henry lying about his age.
		Francis died of tuberculosis in 1918, and Henry Fowler's book of English usage - which was dedicated to his brother - was published in 1926.
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	Henry Watson Fowler biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Henry Watson Fowler (10 March 1858 - 26 December 1933) was an English schoolmaster, lexicographer and commentator on usage, notable for both Fowler's Modern English Usage (first published 1926) and his work on the Concise Oxford Dictionary.
		Born in Tonbridge, he graduated from Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford, then spent 17 years teaching English grammar at a secondary school in Yorkshire.
		In 1903 he moved to the island of Guernsey, where he worked with his brother Francis George Fowler on The King's English (1906), a work with the novel purpose of encouraging writers to be more simple and direct in their style.
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	The Fowler Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fowler made his real mark on the English language only after moving to the remote island of Guernsey in 1903.
		He and his brother, Francis George Fowler, proposed to write "a sort of English composition manual, from the negative point of view, for journalists & amateur writers." The outcome, The King's English, was published by the Oxford University Press and quickly became a de facto standard.
		Fowler addressed these point in A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, first published in 1926 and still in print.
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	Amazon.com: Books: Oxford Fowler's Modern English Usage Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Part of it is because Fowler's reputation only grew after his death as several generations of writers sang his praises and adhered to, or sometimes fussed about, his many dicta on usage questions both great and small.
		What Fowler knew and preached was that before we could presume to be literary artists or journalists or even authors of readable letters we must of necessity, if we are to be effective, be craftsmen.
		That belief along with Fowler's celebrated passion for the concise and the correct, and his intolerance of ignorance and humbug, coupled with his sometimes incomparable expression, long ago won him the undying respect and admiration of careful writers of the English language the world over.
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		A most unfortunate revision of an outstanding work : I can but concur that while Fowler's Modern English Usage is the outstanding, seminal work on the conventions, structure and usage of English, it is the second and not the third edition that lovers of English should buy.
		Fowler, Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler, F.
		Prequel to Fowler's "Dictionary of Modern English Usage" : If you liked "A Dictionary of Modern English Usage," you will love "The King's English."For three generations, a single book dominated the market as the authoritative reference in matters of grammar, style, and usage in the English language...
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	The New Fowler's Modern English Usage
		Fowler's Modern English Usage has served for nearly 80 years as the indispensable guide to anyone who wants to write clear and vigorous English.
		Nonetheless, 80 years is a long time to retain the word "modern" in the title of a book, and clearly the examples from newspapers of the first quarter of the 20th century have lost most of their currency, and even the examples from the literature of Fowler's period have aged as well.
		This was partially achieved in the 2nd edition, edited by Ernest Gowers in 1965: Gowers did away with much of Fowler's idiosyncratic arrangement of his material, but he left most of the writing unchanged.
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		Henry Fowler is one of the most important figures in the history of the development of the English language
		Henry Watson Fowler was born in Tonbridge, Kent, in 1858.
		Against the descriptions of Fowler's work is set the story of a man whose career began as a schoolmaster, but who moved to London to begin a new life as a writer.
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		Henry Watson Fowler (10 March 1858 - 26 December 1933) was an English schoolmaster, lexicographer and commentator on usage, notable for both Fowler's Modern English Usage and the Concise Oxford Dictionary.
		Born in Devon, he graduated from Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford, then spent 17 years teaching English grammar at a secondary school in Yorkshire.
		In 1903 he moved to the island of Guernsey, where he worked with his brother Francis George Fowler on The King's English, a work with the novel purpose of encouraging writers to be more simple and direct in their style.
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		Both he and his brother, Francis G. Fowler (1870-1918), had been teachers before they began their literary collaboration with a translation of Lucian (1905).
		After the death of his brother in 1918, H. Fowler completed A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926) alone.
		Henry officials to host hearing on women's issues...
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		After his brother’s death in 1918, H.W. Fowler carried on alone to battle for non-vulgar, ‘good’, indeed ‘correct’ English, with such resounding success that ‘Fowler’ became a household word whenever and wherever questions of English usage were raised or, more commonly, hotly debated.
		American words, idioms, pronunciations, spellings, all figure prominently in the New Fowler, and other varieties of English, notably Australian, New Zealand, Canadian, and South African, are noted where appropriate, not least in the quotations from printed sources to illustrate specific entries.
		Some users of the New Fowler may wish for more dogmatic pronouncements; others will be quite happy to make up their own minds after reading what author and editor have had to say, and of these your reviewer is one.
	www.anu.edu.au /andc/ozwords/May_97/5._review.htm (928 words)

	AskOxford: Henry Fowler - The Warden of English
		From time to time letters of inquiry, admiration, or amiable dispute still arrive at the University Press in Oxford, addressed to Henry Watson Fowler, though it is now nearly seventy years since his death.
		Henry Fowler was an unusual man, it is true.
		We might have ragged him, with his strange shyness and his eccentric dress, his passions for early morning runs and all those swims, those endless swims, in water as cold as could be borne.
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	H.W. Fowler Collection at Bartleby.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Anyone who wishes to become a good writer should endeavor, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.
		Both he and his brother, Francis G. Fowler (1870–1918), had been teachers before they began their literary collaboration with a translation of Lucian (1905).
		They also worked together on The King’s English (1906), a trenchant and witty book of modern English usage and misusage, and on The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English (1911) and The Pocket Oxford Dictionary (1924).—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
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	Compare Prices on Fowler's Modern English Usage (Oxford Language Classics S.)
		Central to his purpose was the belief that the right wordat the right time in its proper place and context constituted the backboneand much of the muscle and sinew of forthright and effective writing.
		That belief along with Fowler's celebrated passion for good writing andhis intolerance of ignorance and humbug, coupled with his sometimesincomparable expression, long ago won him the undying respect andadmiration of careful writers of the English language the world over. And this has been something of a problem.
		So, like it or not, Fowler had to be updated, and of course there was noshortage of lexicographers, linguists, grammarians, journalists and otherslooking to do the job.Furthermore, the "Great Divide" between AmericanEnglish and British English needed to be explained, recorded, andcodified.
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	Amazon.com: Books: The New Fowler's Modern English Usage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fowler's knowledge and wit shine through his own work; Burchfield's tendentious, plodding and pseudo-scholarly revision has left little trace of such elements.
		And if you want to see why Fowler is such a marvellous source of reference and learning, read (in the second edition) his clear and authoritative exposition of the difference, which is now rarely understood, between a gerund and a participle.
		Fowler, second edition, is the one work of reference that you should own.
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	Fowler Coat of Arms
		The saga of the name Fowler follows a line reaching back through history to the days of the Anglo-Saxon tribes in Britain.
		It is a name for someone who worked as a person who worked as the fowler or the bird-catcher.
		Immigrated to Tennessee: Chronicles of a Fowler Family by Jane Cook Hollis, Palmer, Fowler Genealogies.
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	Fictionwise eBooks: H. V. Cordry, Ph.D.
		Bio: Henry Watson Fowler was a shy, reclusive scholar, a modest and gentle man who lived alone, hermit-like, in a one-room cottage on the island of Guernsey, about fifty yards from the home of his brother Francis.
		Cordry, Ph.D. The Fowler brothers, Henry Watson and Francis George, write about grammar with the schoolmaster's instinct to add a dash of whimsical humor to their lesson.
		Although reader response was favorable, reviewers for publications from which the Fowlers had drawn examples of ignorance and illiteracy for obvious reasons were less inclined to enthusiastically promote the m...
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	Amazon.ca: Books: The King's English: An Essential Guide to Written English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fowler (Author), Henry Watson Fowler (Author), Francis George Fowler (Author), F.
		Twenty years earlier, however, Fowler and his younger brother F.G. (their given names were Henry Watson and Francis George) had collaborated on a precursor, "The King's English," first published in 1906 (and which went into its third edition a quarter century later, a few years after the first edition of "A Dictionary" appeared).
		The Fowlers write with every bit as much elegance, flair, and humor as they advise their readers to use, and their mastery of their subject is unsurpassed.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Fowler's Modern English Usage (Oxford Language Classics S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Such a sentiment would, I imagine, sit well with Henry Watson Fowler who,some eighty years ago in collaboration with his younger brother Frank,wrote this famous book of English language guidance and prescription (andproscription!).
		That belief along with Fowler's celebrated passion for good writing andhis intolerance of ignorance and humbug, coupled with his sometimesincomparable expression, long ago won him the undying respect andadmiration of careful writers of the English language the world over.
		So, like it or not, Fowler had to be updated, and of course there was noshortage of lexicographers, linguists, grammarians, journalists and otherslooking to do the job.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0198605064 (1271 words)

	British Medical Journal: Modern English abusage - Statistical Data Included
		When Henry Watson Fowler published his Dictionary of Modern English Usage in 1926 he could hardly have foreseen how popular it would become as a source of information about grammar, rhetoric, punctuation, spelling, and other matters related to written and spoken English.
		For instance, Fowler preferred Britishism to Briticism, labelling the latter a barbarism; Burchfield simply comments that Briticism is now the more usual term in scholarly work.
		But he perpetuates Fowler's mistake, in failing to appreciate that these two geometrical progressions grow at exactly the same rate, presumably misled by the smallness of the absolute increments in the latter.
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	Fowler, Henry Watson (1858–1933) and Francis George (1870–1918)
		Fowler, Henry Watson (1858–1933) and Francis George (1870–1918)
		English brothers who were scholars and authors of a number of English dictionaries.
		Modern English Usage (1926), the work of Henry Fowler, has become a classic reference work for matters of style and disputed usage.
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	When I use a word ...: Modern English abusage -- Aronson 320 (7231): 357 -- BMJ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When Henry Watson Fowler published his Dictionary of Modern English Usage in 1926 he could hardly have foreseen how popular
		Fowler and Gowers are not always rigid, nor Burchfield always
		But his New Fowler is marred by a poor grasp of medicine and science.
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	SPRING READING: STEWART OCTOBER 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1926 Fowler brought forth on the world one of the quirkiest books on grammar and style ever published in the English language.
		Don Watson's new book, Death Sentence: The Decayof Public Language, describes the progress of that disease into all areas of public language: education, commerce, the bureaucracy and politics.
		Death Sentence is a dazzling mix of analysis and mockery, gently basted with Watson's mordant wit.
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	Henry Watson Fowler -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Henry Watson Fowler -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		He then went to (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London and worked as a (A writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them) freelance (A writer for newspapers and magazines) journalist.
		Following the death of its editor, he helped complete work on the first edition of the (Click link for more info and facts about Shorter Oxford English Dictionary) Shorter Oxford English Dictionary under the editorship of (Click link for more info and facts about C.T. Onions) C.T. Onions.
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	Amazon.ca: Books: The Warden of English: The Life of H. W. Fowler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He was not, by all accounts, a particularly inspiring teacher during the 17 years he labored conscientiously as a Yorkshire schoolmaster, but once Fowler moved to the island of Guernsey and took up freelance writing he proved to have a gift for educating people in print.
		He emerges in the lengthy excerpts from the letters that McMorris has the good sense to quote as a charming, witty man, not at all the dusty scholar one might expect to produce (with younger brother Frank) books bearing titles like The King's English and The Concise Oxford Dictionary.
		McMorris's own no-frills prose suffers somewhat by comparison with her subject's, but her conscientious résumé of Fowler's long and productive life will engage readers who want a behind-the-scenes peek at the book publishing industry.
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