The King's English (2d edition)

Fowler, H.W.

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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.<p>

The King’s English is less like a dictionary than Modern English Usage; it consists of longer articles on more general top