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Its success was wide – far beyond the original audience of civil servants – and Gowers was invited by the Oxford University Press to prepare a new edition of Fowler's Modern English Usage, which was in need of updating, having been in print since 1926 with only very minor changes.

The second edition was published in 1965 and remained in print for three decades, being succeeded by a third edition in 1996.