A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), by H. W. Fowler (1858–1933), is a style guide to British English usage and writing. It covers a wide range...

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage (MWDEU) is a usage dictionary published by Merriam-Webster, Inc., of Springfield, Massachusetts. It is currently...

Garner's Modern English Usage (GMEU), written by Bryan A. Garner and published by Oxford University Press, is a usage dictionary and style guide (or "prescriptive...

Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage, compiled by the linguist and author Lin Yutang, contains over 8,100 character head entries and...

English schoolmaster, lexicographer and commentator on the usage of the English language. He is notable for both A Dictionary of Modern English Usage...

comprehensive; two major ones are Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage and Garner's Modern English Usage. Language for specific purposes Nielsen (1994)...

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage Smith, N. (2006-01-01), Brown, Keith (ed.), "History of Linguistics: Discipline of Linguistics", Encyclopedia of...

Dictionary of English Usage. Penguin. 2002. p. 728. ISBN 9780877796336. Fowler, H.W. (2010). Crystal, David (ed.). A Dictionary of Modern English Usage. Oxford...

Practical English Usage is a standard reference book aimed at foreign learners of English and their teachers, written by Michael Swan. Published by Oxford...

Cambridge Guide to English Usage by Pam Peters is a usage dictionary, giving an up-to-date account of the debatable issues of English usage and written style...

manuals such as Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage or Garner's Modern English Usage often prescribe appropriate usage of synonyms. Writers sometimes...

Strunk & White's The Elements of Style and Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, it applies science to the process of writing, and explains its prescriptions...

sense of the quotation, but otherwise to place punctuation outside the closing quotation marks. Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage provides...

years Modern English Usage, which was written by Henry alone after Francis's death in 1918. The King's English is less like a dictionary than Modern English...

or seduced. In A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), Fowler describes such sentences as unwittingly laying a "false scent". Such a sentence leads...

A Dictionary of American-English Usage Based on Fowler's Modern English Usage. Signet, by arrangement with Oxford University Press. Oxford English Dictionary...

Greek particles, ιστης and ικος. Fowler, H. W. (2010-10-14). A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition. OUP Oxford. s.v. "-o-", p. 392...

Some English words are often used in ways that are contentious among writers on usage and prescriptive commentators. The contentious usages are especially...

A Dictionary of the English Language, sometimes published as Johnson's Dictionary, was published on 15 April 1755 and written by Samuel Johnson. It is...

Merriam-Webster's dictionary of English usage (2nd ed.). Merriam-Webster. 1995. p. 592. ISBN 978-0-87779-132-4. Fowler, H.W.; Gowers, Ernest (1965). Fowler's Modern English...

Garner's Modern American Usage, a 2009 usage guide for contemporary American English by Bryan Garner A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, a 1926 usage guide...

This list comprises widespread modern beliefs about English language usage that are documented by a reliable source to be misconceptions. With no authoritative...

A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic...

2025-07-16. "Definition of 'sic'". Collins Dictionary. Retrieved 2025-07-16. Garner, Bryan A. (2001). "sic". A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage (2nd ed.). US:...

and "prudery." A style guide to British English usage, H.W. Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, states in the first edition (1926) that applying...

ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) Fowler, H. W. (1926). A Dictionary of Modern English Usage. Great Britain: Oxford University Press. pp. 52–53. ISBN 978-0-19-860506-5...

athamanticum, a herb commonly known as 'meu' Model European Union, a politics education exercise A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, the style guide...

(paperback). Penguin, 2008. ISBN 9781439562635 (paperback). A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926) by H. W. Fowler The Complete Plain Words (1954) by...

grew into a family of various dictionaries, a dictionary-thesaurus combination, and a usage guide. James Parton (1912–2001), grandson of English-born American...

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (2 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 725. ISBN 0-19-953534-5. "plurality". Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Retrieved...