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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Sir Ernest Gowers
		Sir Ernest Gowers (1880 - 1966) was a British civil servant, now best known for work on style guides for the writing of the English language.
		He was the father of composer Patrick Gowers and grandfather of mathematician and Fields Medallist Tim Gowers.
		He was the grandfather of composer Patrick Gowers and greatgrandfather of mathematician and Fields Medallist Tim Gowers.
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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Patrick Gowers
		He is the grandson of British civil servant Sir Ernest Gowers and the father of mathematician Timothy Gowers.
		He is as of 1998 Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Trinity College.
		He is the son of composer Patrick Gowers and greatgrandson of British civil servant Sir Ernest Gowers.
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	Amazon.com: Reviews for The Complete Plain Words: Books: Sir Ernest Gowers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Did his wife say to him at breakfast `Would you like more toast, Sir Ernest?', or perhaps, in those tender intimate moments, `That was wonderful, Sir Ernest, how was it for you?' The whole attitude underlying the book is a memorial of an era when Whitehall was the High Indaba of the British establishment.
		Future Sir Ernests took firsts in classics at Cambridge, joined the civil service and were later appointed to chair the Coal Mines Reorganisation Commission (later the Coal Commission) and similar.
		Gowers writes in compact, sometimes dryly humourous, style, as he corrects the often confused use of "which-that" and "who-whom", the employment or negligence of the subjunctive, and punctuation.
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	Ernest Gowers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Ernest Gowers (1880 - 1966) was a British civil servant, now best known for work on style guides for the writing of the English language.
		His own The Complete Plain Words was published in 1954, expanding Plain Words, a guide to the use of English from 1948.
		He was the grandfather of composer Patrick Gowers and greatgrandfather of mathematician and Fields Medallist Tim Gowers.
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	Amazon.com: The Complete Plain Words: Books: Sir Ernest Gowers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		When such guides work well, and Gowers is one that works (and reads) very well, they acquire a force and authority that keep the language clear, flexible and responsive to the constant pressure of the workaday world.
		In 1948 Gowers, a senior British civil servant, was asked by the Treasury to write a book that would improve the written work of government workers in every department.
		By 1951 Gowers had two short books, here combined in one, and revised in 1986 by Sidney Greenbaum, Director of the Survey of English Usage and Quain Professor of English at University College, London, and Janet Whitcut, former Senior Research Editor of the Longman Dictionary and Reference Book Unit.
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	William Timothy Gowers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		William Timothy Gowers (born November 20 1963, Wiltshire, United Kingdom) is a British mathematician.
		He is as of 1998 Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Trinity College.
		He is the son of composer Patrick Gowers and grandson of British civil servant Sir Ernest Gowers.
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		Gowers writes, "Professional writers realise that they cannot hope to affect their readers precisely as they wish without care and practice in the proper use of words.
		When one considers that Plain Words was first published in the 1940s it seems incredible that Gowers could have come up with so much sensible advice that it has taken some linguists more than five decades to accept.
		Gowers writes: "It was, I believe, Dryden who invented the rule that prepositions must not be used to end a sentence with.
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	The Hindu : Monumental achievement
		THE former Prime Minister of England, Sir Winston Churchill, was extremely fastidious in his use of the English language.
		Gowers' comment in this letter reveals his own admiration for Fowler: "So he continued to diversify his lexicography with the duties of a house-parlourmaid and no doubt performed them more scrupulously than any professional" (Ibid).
		Even Sir Ernest Gowers who was responsible for bringing out the second edition of Modern English Usage, more than 30 years after Fowler's death, concedes that Fowler was "mathematical rather than literary." His fulminations against the notorious "fused participle" - "Yet every just man who will abstain from the fused participle...
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	Choosing the familiar word, from 'The Choice Of Words'
		Sir Winston does not hesitate to prefer the uncommon word if there is something to be gained by it.
		There are some who deprecate this enlargement of the word's meaning, but I do not think there is any use in doing that; it is well established, and can justly claim to be expressive and vivid and to fill a need.
		As Sir Alan Herbert has pointed out, "John and Jane anticipated marriage" is not likely to be interpreted as "John and Jane expected to be married".
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		Ernest Gowers -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		He wrote also on (Putting a condemned person to death) capital punishment.
		He was the father of composer Patrick Gowers and grandfather of mathematician and (additional info and facts about Fields Medal) Fields Medallist (additional info and facts about Tim Gowers) Tim Gowers.
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	Durham Mining Museum - Gowers, E. A. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Gowers, E. Warning: This is not intended to be an exhaustive history of this individual, but an indication of the changes of positions and the links between companies, directors and managers in those companies.
		Gowers, Sir E. Chairman of the Coal Mines Reorganisation Commission.
		Gowers, Sir Ernest A., K.C.B., K.B.E., Chairman of the Coal Commission since 1938; Chairman of the Coal Mines Reorganisation Commission, 1930-38; Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue 1927-30; Permanent Under Secretary, Mines Department, 1920-27.
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	Choosing the precise word, from 'The Choice Of Words'
		Sir Winston Churchill did not begin his broadcast on the 17th June, 1940: "The position in regard to France is extremely serious".
		They had a reverse not long ago when the phrase accommodation unit was most unkindly received by Sir Winston Churchill and finished off by Sir Hartley Shawcross, who said that it had lost the Labour Party (then in power) 50,000 votes, or if it had not it ought to have done.
		To involve, with its ugly and upstart noun involvement, has to do duty for to attack, to invade, to injure, to affect, to pervert, to encroach upon, to influence, to enclose, to implicate, to permeate, to pervade, to penetrate, to dislocate, to contaminate and so forth.
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	"shit" is not an acronym
		Sir Ernest Gowers, in his revisions to the second edition of "Fowler's Modern English Usage" (1965, p.116) traces the rise of the acronym to World War I (ANZAC, etc.), but it really didn't becom a common method of word formation in English until World War II.
		The lack of a need for such a word suggests the degree to which acronyms were not a part of daily life until then.
		As Gowers illustrates with many examples, modern wars breed acronyms.
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	THE ISTPF, history
		Commonly known as punning and plays on words, paronomasia is the humourous or fanciful use of the similarity between different words and/or the different senses of the same word.
		Sir Ernest Gowers, in Fowler's Modern English Usage, suggests that perhaps the best known pun is one that requires a basic knowledge of Greek to achieve its effect.
		Puns are otherwise found at every turn, and in spite of our generally condescending view of this light-hearted form of speech, turn up with disconcerting (for some) frequency in the works of many of our most highly venerated authors, including Shakespeare.
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		Sir Thomas L. Heath, A Manual of Greek Mathematics (1931), New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1963, 552 pp.
		Ernest Fenollosa, The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry, ed.
		Ernest Newman, Wagner as Man and Artist, New York, Random House (Vintage),1960, 440 pp.
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	Amazon.ca: Customer Reviews Books: A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The second edition (edited by Gowers) is OK, but the first is really the nonpareil.
		But the dominant one is undoubtedly the idiosyncrasy of the author, which is revealed to an extent unusual in a 'dictionary'.
		As Sir Ernest says in the epigraph to this review, that's not a style we're used to finding in dictionaries.
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	Amazon.co.uk: The Complete Plain Words: Books: Sir Ernest Gowers,Sidney Greenbaum,Janet Whitcut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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		by Sir Ernest Gowers (Author), Sidney Greenbaum (Editor), Janet Whitcut (Editor)
		This is a book that I have read and re-read, and I now try to practice what Gowers preaches.
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		Current usage of vocabulary and style is explained clearly and sections included cover: jargon, cliches, spelling and punctuation; ground rules of grammar; superfluous words, overuse or misuse; sexist language, the influence of science and technology, American English and exemplary clarity.
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		1933 Sir WL Langdon-Brown* The Psychology of Authorship
		1982 Sir Peter Tizard Osler's Contribution to the Study of Cerebral Palsy in Children
		2000 Sir David Weatherall 'From Osler to the Barefoot Doctor: The Role of Science in the
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	Churchill on Prepositions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The alt.english.usage FAQ states that the story originated with an anecdote in Sir Ernest Gowers’ Plain Words (1948).
		Supposedly an editor had clumsily rearranged one of Churchill’s sentences to avoid ending it in a preposition, and the Prime Minister, very proud of his style, scribbled this note in reply: “This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.” The American Heritage Book of English Usage agrees.
		It is not clear how the anecdote came to be attributed to Churchill by Gowers, but it seems to have circulated independently earlier.
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	William Timothy Gowers Summary
		He is the son of composer Patrick Gowers and great-grandson of British civil servant Sir Ernest Gowers.
		1998 Fields Medalist William Timothy Gowers from the American Mathematical Society
		Timothy W. Gowers from Science and Its Times.
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	Sources
		Klein, Dr. Ernest, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., 1971.
		Monier-Williams, Sir Monier, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Etymologically and Philologically arranged, Oxford University Press, 1899.
		Weekley, Ernest, An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, John Murray, 1921; reprint 1967, Dover Publications.
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	Ernest Gowers - Definition, explanation
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		A guide to the use of English by Sir Ernest Gowers.
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	Amazon.co.uk: The Complete Plain Words: Books: Sir Ernest Gowers,Sir Bruce Fraser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Amazon.co.uk: The Complete Plain Words: Books: Sir Ernest Gowers,Sir Bruce Fraser
		by Sir Ernest Gowers (Author), Sir Bruce Fraser (Editor)
		Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English (Abusus Non Tollit Usum) (Penguin Reference Books) by Eric Partridge
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		"The use of commas cannot be learned by rule," says Sir Ernest Gowers, as quote by Lynne Truss on page 82 of Eats, Shoots & Leaves (where does he say it?
		She ought to, on the book website at least, and so I will tell her by email.) I came across one of the controversial situations this past week in reading over the copyedits of my "The Economics of Agency Law and Contract Formation," for the American Law and Economics Review.
		Perhaps we must go with Sir Ernest Gower on this one.
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		A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: revised 2nd edition.
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	Dictionary of Modern English Usage. - FOWLER, H.W., REVISED BY SIR ERNEST GOWERS. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		- FOWLER, H.W., REVISED BY SIR ERNEST GOWERS.
		Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975, this edition spec.
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