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Allen approaches this updated guide to English usage by way of British English. Therefore, numerous words, rare to the American vocabulary, populate alphabetized entries. British spellings may also cause momentary confusion for American speakers: "broccoli" seems initially defined as the grain "spelt," until one recognizes this as the British form of "spelled." Excellent sidebars are devoted to easily confusable words and tricky suffixes that can alter meaning. However, Allen (Allen's Dictionary of English Phrases) occasionally omits detonative and connotative meanings to focus instead on pronunciation, leaving the entry wanting. These flaws aside, it is a useful guide, recommended for English collections.
—Savannah Schroll Guz
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This invaluable reference work offers the best advice on English usage, drawing on the unrivalled resources of Oxford's English Dictionaries program and language monitoring. This second edition of the "Pocket Fowler" harks back to the original 1926 edition of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by Henry Fowler, widely regarded as the finest such guide in print.
Updated with the use of the Oxford English Corpus, a database of over two billion words, and with up-to-date entries...