Henricus Watson Fowler (Anglice: Henry Watson Fowler; natus die 10 Martii anno 1858, mortuus die 26 Decembris anno 1933), alumnus Scholae Rugbeiensis et Collegii de Balliolo apud Oxonienses, fuit lexicographus, grammaticus, magister, interpresque Anglicus. Celeber est suis lexicis A Dictionary of Modern English Usage et Concise Oxford Dictionary. Etiam opera Luciani in Anglicum vertit.

Opera edita recensere

Libri recensere

  • More Popular Fallacies. Londinium: Elliot Stock, 1904.
  • cum F. G. Fowler, interpres. The Works of Lucian. Oxonia: Clarendon Press, 1905.
  • cum F. G. Fowler. The King's English. Oxonia: Clarendon Press, 1906.
  • Sentence Analysis. Oxonia: Clarendon Press, 1906.
  • Si Mihi! Londinum: Brown, Langham, 1907.
    • re-editus sub titulo If Wishes Were Horses. Londinum: George Allen & Unwin, 1929.
  • Between Boy and Man. Londinum: Watts, 1908.
  • cum F. G. Fowler. The King's English, abridged edition. Oxonia: Clarendon Press, 1908.
  • cum F. G. Fowler. Concise Oxford Dictionary. Oxonia: Clarendon Press, 1911 [2nd edition, 1929].
  • cum F. G. Fowler. Pocket Oxford Dictionary. Oxonia: Clarendon Press, 1924.
  • A Dictionary of Modern English Usage. Oxonia: Clarendon Press, 1926.
  • Some Comparative Values. Oxonia: Blackwell, 1929.
  • Rhymes of Darby to Joan. Londinum: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1931.
  • cum W. Little et J. Coulson. Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Oxonia: Clarendon Press, 1933.

Commentationes recensere

  • "Books We Think We Have Read". Spectator, 20 January 1900.
  • "Outdoor London". Anglo-Saxon Review, June 1901.
  • "Irony and Some Synonyms". Gentleman's Magazine, October 1901, 378.
  • "Quotation". Longman's Magazine, January 1901, 241.
  • "On Hyphens, 'Shall' & 'Will', 'Should' 'Would' in the Newspapers of Today". Society for Pure English Tract 6. Oxonia: Clarendon Press, 1921.
  • "Note on 'as to'". Society for Pure English Tract 8. Oxonia: Clarendon Press, 1922.
  • "Grammatical Inversions". Society for Pure English Tract 10. Oxonia: Clarendon Press, 1923.
  • "Preposition at End". Society for Pure English Tract 14. Oxonia: Clarendon Press, 1923.
  • "Split Infinitive, &c." Society for Pure English Tract 15. Oxonia: Clarendon Press, 1923.
  • "Subjunctives". Society for Pure English Tract 18. Oxonia: Clarendon Press, 1924.
  • "Notes on fasci, fascisti, broadcast(ed)". Society for Pure English Tract 19. Oxonia: Clarendon Press, 1925.
  • "Italic, Fused Participles, &c." Society for Pure English Tract 22. Oxonia: Clarendon Press, 1925.
  • "Ing". Society for Pure English Tract 26. Oxonia: Clarendon Press, 1927.
  • "Comprise". Society for Pure English Tract 36. Oxonia: Clarendon Press, 1925.[1]

Notae recensere

  1. McMorris, p. 229.

Nexus externi recensere

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