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Fowler's and Modern
According to Fowler's Modern English Usage ( 1965 ), the correct term is " the Received Pronunciation ".
The term was later exported to France ( H. W. Fowler's Modern English Usage ).
* Fowler's Modern English Usage
A Dictionary of American-English Usage Based on Fowler's Modern English Usage.
Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage provides an early example of the rule: " All signs of punctuation used with words in quotation marks must be placed.
The 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica states that " he spelling ' tyre ' is not now accepted by the best English authorities, and is unrecognized in the US ", while Fowler's Modern English Usage of 1926 says that " there is nothing to be said for ' tyre ', which is etymologically wrong, as well as needlessly divergent from our own British older & the present American usage ".
" Toff, who is also an editor for Oxford University Press, describes in some detail the etymology of words for " flute ," comparing OED, Fowler's Modern English Usage, Evans ' Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage, and Copperud's American Usage and Style: The Consensus before arriving at her conclusion: " I play the flute, not the flaut ; therefore I am a flutist not a flautist.
The first edition of the OED lists fluter as dating from circa 1400 and Fowler's Modern English Usage states that " there seems no good reason " why flautist should have prevailed over fluter or flutist.
* Fowler's Modern English Usage
* Fowler's Modern English Usage
* Fowler's Modern English Usage
Review of The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, by H. W. Fowler and ed.
H. W. Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage " defines usage as ' points of grammar, syntax, style, and the choice of words '".
Fowler's Modern English Usage disapproves of several uses of the conjunctive while.
* Fowler's Modern English Usage, a well-known guide to British English usage
The Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage, OUP, 2002, says of the rule for the use of shall and will: " it is unlikely that this rule has ever had any consistent basis of authority in actual usage, and many examples of English in print disregard it ".
It is used less often in British English, where it is standard usage to leave it out, with some notable exceptions such as the Oxford University Press, though its use is recommended in the British Fowler's Modern English Usage.
The Chicago Manual of Style, Strunk and White's Elements of Style, most authorities on American English and Canadian English, and some authorities on British English ( for example, Oxford University Press and Fowler's Modern English Usage ) recommend the use of the serial comma.
Very aware of his limited education, Ross treated Fowler's Modern English Usage as his bible.
) Fowler's Modern English Usage, 1998
Later they worked on what became Fowler's Modern English Usage, but before it was finished, Francis died of tuberculosis, picked up during his service with the British Expeditionary Force.
* Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage
Fowler's Modern English Usage ( 1926 ) warned, " Now the sobriquet habit is not a thing to be acquired, but a thing to be avoided ; & the selection that follows is compiled for the purpose not of assisting but of discouraging it.
Fowler's Modern English Usage.

Fowler's and English
Fowler's English Usage describes it as " ugly ", Strunk and White say that it " damages a sentence and often leads to confusion or ambiguity ", and the Chicago Manual of Style calls it " Janus-faced ".
* Elegant Variation — Fowler's discussion of elegant variation in The King's English ( 1908 )

Fowler's and style
The majority of Fowler's art is done in a postmodern cartoon style and often revolves around a central narrative and features a recurring set of characters.

Fowler's and by
While a few short-lived DOS based EDuke projects emerged, it was not until the release of EDuke32, an extended version of Duke3D incorporating variants of both Fowler's Microsoft Windows JFDuke3D code and Saettler's EDuke code, by one of 3D Realms ' forum moderators in late 2004 that EDuke's scripting extensions received community focus.
Also recently announced in June 2006 are plans to open a wilderness education theme park sponsored by wildlife host Jim Fowler, to be called Jim Fowler's Life in the Wild.
The Word Man, a play about Fowler's life and career by the writer Chris Harrald, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play on 17 January 2008.
In healthy lungs where the alveolar dead space is small, Fowler's method accurately measures the anatomic dead space by a nitrogen washout technique.
Rocky decides to flee the farm the next day, leaving behind Fowler's medal and the second half of his poster, showing that Rocky was actually a stunt rooster, only " flying " by being shot out of a cannon.
Fowler's performance in the 1997 – 98 football season was marred by a knee ligament injury that kept him out of action for half the season and caused him to miss the 1998 World Cup.
Fowler's return against Birmingham City in February 2006 was labelled by the tabloid press as the stuff of fairytales, and he himself said he felt like " a kid waking up on Christmas morning every day ".
In March 2006, manager Rafael Benítez commented on Fowler's work and progress by saying, " to buy a Robbie Fowler who is fit and scoring goals would cost a lot, maybe £ 10m or more ".
The third edition of Fowler's book, printed in 1853, has a new subtitle: A Home For All, or The Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building, and was distinguished by Fowler's enthusiasm for concrete construction.
Fowler's Folly fell into disrepair, and finally-condemned as a public hazard-it was dynamited in 1897 by Fred C. Haight, demolition engineer for the city of Fishkill.
The house was inspired by Fowler's book, and is a good example of his theories put into practice.
In Thomas Fowler's monograph on Shaftesbury and Hutcheson in the series of English philosophers ( 1882 ) he was able to supplement the printed materials for the Life by extracts from the Shaftesbury papers in the Record Office.
One of the main themes was the rivalry between the uniformed squad led by Inspector Fowler ( a sort of protagonist figure ) and the CID led by Detective Inspector Grim ( often Fowler's antagonist, though they were on the same side of the law ).
Lancaster's innate taste was only complimented by John Fowler's ( her decorator partner ) sense of color and knowledge of historic interiors.
However Robbie Fowler's penalty was saved by Middlesbrough goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer and so City did not qualify for the UEFA Cup.
* The Jane Austen Book Club, a 2007 adaptation of Fowler's novel directed by Robin Swicord
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.
* 1968-A Fowler's World: an account of days on the marsh and estuary, by Ian Niall.
' The situation was further aggravated by stories of McManaman and Robbie Fowler's lifestyles off the pitch following an interview with the magazine, Loaded, which depicted the duo as hedonists and scally characters, as well as stories about McManaman and Fowler's lack of decorum and disruptive influence in the dressing room.

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