This invaluable reference work offers the best advice on English usage based on Henry Fowler's original, sill a classic text after 80 years. Updated with the use of the British National Corpus, a 100-million word database of information about today's language, this edition answers your most frequently asked questions about language use.
*Robert Allen, the editor of this Pocket edition, is an experienced lexiographer and writer on a wide range of language issues. A former Senior Editor of the "Oxford English Dictionary", Chief Editor of the "Concise Oxford Dictionary (1990)", and an Associate Editor of the "Oxford Companion to the English Language (1992)", he has written widely on the use of English in modern times. He now works as a freelance writer and editor, and is the author of two titles in Oxford's 'One Step Ahead' series, "Punctuation and Spelling (2002)".

Preface: v p.
Acknowledgements: vi p.
Abbreviations: vii p.
Phonetic transcriptions: viii p.
Cross-references: viii p.
Glossary: ix-x p.

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