Henry Watson Fowler


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Noun1.Henry Watson Fowler - English lexicographer who wrote a well-known book on English usage (1858-1933)Henry Watson Fowler - English lexicographer who wrote a well-known book on English usage (1858-1933)
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1933: Henry Watson Fowler. Author of 'A Dictionary of Modern English Usage'.
HENRY WATSON Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage is an unabashedly prescriptivist tome, which is to say that it doesn't waffle in describing the right way, and the wrong way, to use English words.