The King's English - Couverture rigide

Fowler 185, H W; Fowler, F G

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1608880877 ISBN 13 : 9781608880874

Editeur : Nimble Books, 2010

Synopsis

The King's English is a classic book on English usage and grammar. This second edition Fowler brothers, Henry Watson Fowler and Francis George Fowler, and published in 1908, and thus pre-dates by almost years Modern English Usage, which was written by Henry alone after Francis's death in 1918. This is a facsimile version of the 1922 printing by Oxford University Press.

The King's English is less like a dictionary than Modern English Usage; it consists of longer articles on more general topics such as vocabulary, syntax and punctuation, and draws heavily on examples from many sources throughout. One of its sections is a systematic description of the appropriate uses of shall and will. The third and last edition was published in 1931, by which time Modern English Usage had superseded it in popularity.

Because all living languages continually evolve, the book is now considered outdated in some respects; and some of the Fowlers' opinions about correct English usage are at times incorrect with regard to contemporary standards. For example, the Fowlers disapprove of the word "concision" on the grounds that it had a technical meaning in theology, "to which it may well be left"; although "concision" is now a common synonym for "conciseness", it is still an ugly word. The Fowlers also criticised the use of standpoint and just how much (as in "Just how much more of this can we take?"), describing them as undesirable "Americanisms", but both are now common in British English. The book nevertheless remains a benchmark for usage. Every wordlover should have a copy.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The compilers of this book would be wanting in courtesy if they did not expressly say what might otherwise be safely left to the readers discernment: the frequent appearance in it of any authors or newspapers name does not mean that that author or newspaper offends more often than others against rules of grammar or style; it merely shows that they have bken among the necessarily limited number chosen to collect instances from. The plan of the book was dictated by the following considerations. It is notorious that English writers seldom look into a grammar or composition book; the reading of grammars is repellent because, being bound to be exhaustive on a greater or less scale, they must give much space to the obvious or the unnecessary; and composition books are often useless because they enforce their warnings only by fabricated blunders against which every tiro feels himself quite safe. The principle adopted here has therefore been (i) to pass by all rules, of whatever absolute importance, that are shown by observation to be seldom or never broken; and (2) to illustrate by living examples, with the name of a reputable authority attached to each, all blunders that observation shows to be common. The reader, however, who is thus led to suspect that the only Oiethod followed has been the rejection of method will find, it is hoped, a practical security against inconvenience in the ery full I ndex.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nimble Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1608880877
• ISBN 13: 9781608880874
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 386
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