Preface to the Fourth Edition
Acknowledgements
Dedication, 1926
Key to the Pronunciation
Abbreviations and Symbols
Bibliographical Abbreviations
A to Z
Jeremy Butterfield is an OUP author, language expert, writer, and
lexicographer. For many years he worked in senior editorial
positions in Collins Dictionaries. He is the author of the popular
book on the English language, Damp Squid: The English Language Laid
Bare (2009), as well as the Oxford A-Z of English Usage (2013).
Robert Burchfield (1923-2004) was born in Wangannui, New Zealand.
He edited the third and the revised third edition of
Fowler's Modern English Usage. His distinguished lexicographical
career included a number of key publications: The Oxford Dictionary
of English Etymology (1966, with C. T. Onions and G. W. S.
Friedrichsen) and The English
Language (1985). Henry Watson Fowler (1858-1933) worked as a
teacher and freelance writer before going to Guernsey to form a
remarkably successful writing partnership with his brother Francis.
Most notably, the Fowler brothers wrote The King's English, and
compiled the first edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary (1911).
Henry Fowler finished the Pocket Oxford Dictionary in 1924, and
Modern English Usage, which made him a household name, in 1926.
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