A Dictionary of Modern English Usage

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), by H. W. Fowler (1858–1933), is an English usage dictionary. It details the usage of selected words, morphemes, phrases, word classes, punctuation, and various other rules and word features. The 1926 first edition remains in print along with the 1965 second edition, which was edited by Sir Ernest Gowers and reprinted in 1983 and 1987. The 1996 third edition, titled The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, and revised in 2004, was mostly rewritten by Robert W. Burchfield and incorporated corpus linguistics data. The 2015 fourth edition, titled Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage, was edited by Jeremy Butterfield. Informally readers may refer to the style guide and dictionary as Fowler's Modern English Usage, Fowler or Fowler's.