English usage guides history, advice, attitudes
Usage guides, or language advice manuals, are being published in large numbers, both in Britain and the US. The first titles that usually spring to mind are Fowler's Modern English Usage (1926) or Sir Ernest Gowers's Complete Plain Words (1954). Yet as a phenomenon, they are much older tha...
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Oxford, United Kingdom
Oxford University Press
2018.
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| Series: | Oxford linguistics
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