The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, Revised Edition

27 advantage, vantage | adverb mind

29 advertisement | adviser, advisor

31 aerate | affinity and eon are fr

33 age I aggressive those hands on

35 agreement | agreement Dionysian

37 aide | ain't (Christian aid, for

39 -al j albeit pushed him back /ai

41 alien | allegory alien. From the

43 allowedly | all told the 17c: I

45 alot I alternative constructions

47 ambiguity | amend, emend been us

49 among, amongst | ampersand the v

51 analogous | anaphora spiritual i

53 and/or | aneurysm care hath she

55 Anglo- I antagonize Anglo*. Peop

57 antistrophe | any tampered with

anyone) are to be distinguished fro

6i patterns have occurred in writte

63 appendix | appreciate really rep

65 aquarium | archaism also aquilin

67 Aristotelian | around, round Ari

69 as I as as gifted as he, some ev

71 as I as said, as though they had

73 aside from | assist aside from.

75 assuredly | at insurance) those

77 -ato I attributive words of this

79 author | avail or the like, corr

8i averse, aversion | avuncular unc

83 awesome | aye, ay in all major f

Bb babe, baby. Both words appeared

87 bade | bail out, bale out (somet

8 9 ball game | bambino Ballade of

91 barbarian, barbaric, barbarous |

93 barring | base massive structure

95 bassinet | bay window, bow windo

97 be I be The fading power of the

99 beau idéal | because pressing a

101 bed and breakfast | behest bed

103 beloved | benign, benignant mix

105 bet I between verb (No Mauell,

107 betwixt I bid 4 between + and.

log and looks like remaining so wel

Ill bloom, blossom | blurb "not a b

113 bonne bouche | both bonne bouch

115 bounden | brand-new factor; the

117 brindle(d) | broadcast 'a prick

119 bugger I bur, burr second sylla

121 but J but must always be clearl

123 buzz I Byzantine been greatly a

125 caffeine | camellia case it is

127 canon, canyon | capital works o

Capitals must be used for proprieta

131 carnaptious | case carnaptlOUS

133 cases I cases forms of pronouns

135 catacomb | category the sign %

137 Cave, caveat | ceiling devils a

139 centrifugal, centripetal | cert

141 challenged | charge chaises lon

143 cheerful, cheery | childish, ch

145 chive I chord, cord pronounced

147 cicada | circumstance cicada. P

149 clamant | clause The — say th

151 clerestory | climacteric cleres

153 closure | cloud to stand, sit,

155 cocoa I cohort COCOa, originall

157 cold war, Cold War | collective

159 colloquial | colossal innocent.

i6i first recorded in 1687 and the

163 commando | commercial traveller

165 comparison, grammatical | compe

16 7 complexion | comprise for 'a g

i6g memory), Wysiwyg (what you see

171 conferrable | conjunction confe

173 conservative | considerable her

175 consistency, consistence | cons

177 contagious | content contagious

179 continuance, continuation, cont

i8i contribute. The standard pronun

183 cord I corpus cord. See CHORD,

185 corrigendum | cote means (c) 't

187 council tax | course 2 Counsel

i8g remain free from the ordinary a

191 crick, rick, wrick | crown of a

193 cum I cute the two cultures to

dactyl, a metrical foot (——-) c

197 darky | data of present partici

199 Dear | decided, decisive meanin

201 deem | definite article to indu

203 deity | demagogic In practice a

205 demur | dependence, dependency

207 descant | desideratum October (

209 deuteragonist | diabolic, diabo

211 diamond | didacticism Cf. DUOLO

213 differentia | differently prior

215 dim I disastrous dim. For dim r

217 discussible | disinterest used

219 disjunctive | dispute concern 1

221 distinctly | disyllable misuse.

223 do I do used as a main verb muc

225 dogged I donate modern English

227 double passive | doublespeak Sh

229 doubt I doubtlessly chirruped,

231 dowse I drouth without formal d

233 due to the fact that | duress d

Ee -e-. See MUTE E. each. i Number

237 echelon | -ed and 'd echelon /'

239 educate | effective, effectual,

241 egregious | either egregious. T

243 elaborateness, elaboration | el

2 Axiomatically legitimate types. O

247 emigrant, immigrant, migrant |

249 endocentric compounds | England

251 enough, sufficient(ly) behaviou

253 entourage | -en verbs from adje

255 epergne | episcopalian Examples

257 epode I equally appeared, and t

259 -er and -or | ergative syllable

26l escape | especial(ly), special(

263 -ess I essay (20c), Giottesque

265 esurient | ethic, ethical estua

267 etymology | euphemism in fact i

269 evenness | ever studies course

271 everyplace | evince everyone wa

273 excepting | exclamation mark (I

275 expandable, expansible | exposi

277 exterritorial | eyrie pair, and

Ff -f. For plurals and inflexions o

28l of a faction prevail over some

283 false quantity | fantastic fals

285 farouche | farther, further far

287 Fascism, Fascist | fault be. th

28g -fe. For plurals of words endin

291 feet I female feet. See FOOT (n

293 femur | -fest reasonable number

295 fey I fidget with the word numb

297 fillers I finical, finicking, f

299 fisher, fisherman | fix occas.

301 flak I flaunt, flout distinguis

303 flounder, founder | fly 1570. T

305 folk etymology | for folks woul

307 forceful, forcible | for ever,

309 formal words | formidable Forma

311 fortune | foully 1983. It is tr

313 Frankenstein | French words off

315 frenum | frock and that French

317 fucus I full stop fuCUS (type o

319 funebrial, funeral, funerary, f

Gg g. See GREEK G. gabardine (a dur

323 galop I gap galop /'gaelap/, th

325 gazebo | generic names and othe

327 gentleman | geometric(al) only

329 gesticulation, gesture | get Go

331 gild the lily | girl word guild

333 glamour | gloss glamour (AmE al

335 gobbledegook | gobbledegook mag

337 God's acre | got avoided (in fa

339 gourmandise | graffiti 2 Gourma

341 gramophone | Greek g gr) for th

343 grimace | guest heat. A grille

345 gybe I gyves (NZ), 1989; I coul

347 had I half a fit audience thoug

349 handful | hardly •were hand i

351 harebrained | have learned the

353 head | healthful, healthy 2 The

355 hegemony | hello of mankind is

357 helpmate, helpmeet | hendiadys

359 hereditary | hexameter English

361 hind I historic walks by himsel

363 hoist I homooperate in an Engli

365 honeyed, honied | hope Lords of

367 hove I human hove. See HEAVE. h

369 hyaena | hypallage to say that

371 hypocoristic | hysteric(al) 4 T

I. l The regrettable type between y

375 ictus I idle ictus (in prosody)

377 if and when | ilk be simply a r

379 illiterate | image same, such,

381 immune | impasse immune. A pers

383 importantly | impressionable 19

385 inappeasable | inasmuch as mode

387 incident, incidental | includin

3»9 in connection with | inculcate

391 indiscreet, indiscrete | indivi

393 inferable | infinitive 2 The on

395 inflatable | infuse from inflam

397 inherent | innuendo used reflex

399 in order to | insalubrious, uns

401 in so far as | instil most comf

403 insupportable | intend moral vi

405 inter alia | interment reciproc

407 internist | in that kill' did n

409 intransitive past participles |

411 invalid | inversion invalid. Th

413 invulnerable | -ion and -ness i

415 ironist | irony youthful genera

417 irresponsible | is as a 'stylis

419 island, isle | issue comprise,

421 Italian sounds | itch and flew

423 -ize, -ise in verbs | -ize, -is

425 jargon face; to sow one's wild

427 jarl I jeu d'esprit CMHTs that

429 jonquil | judicial, judicious k

431 juvenile | juvenile English-spe

433 kerosene, paraffin, petrol, pet

435 knee-jerk | knout (rather than

437 kukri I kyrie eleison to mean '

439 laddie | lamentable laddie. Thu

441 largesse | late, erst, erstwhil

443 Latin pronunciation | latter pl

445 lawyer | leading question star,

... has learned to reconsider ... t

449 legalism, legality | legal, law

451 lengthy | less Cf. LONGWAYS, LO

453 let I letter forms guarded agai

455 levy I liberal levy (noun). See

457 life cycle | lightning that the

459 like I like did when it overflo

46l limb. There are two distinct wo

463 litchi I literary critics' word

465 litre I -U-, -l- 2 Meaning. A r

467 locale I logaoedic spelling is

469 longways, longwise | look 2 whe

471 Lord Bacon | love Lord Bacon. A

473 lustre I lyric, lyrical lustre.

475 madding | magus (substituted e.

477 make | malignancy, malignity 5

479 mandatary, mandatory | -manship

48l judged by some to suffer from i

483 matériel | may and might Ameri

485 Mc- I mean Maybe?—London Rev.

487 mean time, meantime | mean whil

489 -meister | meninx Romeo and Jul

491 messuage | metaphysics & Partne

493 metre | middling, middlingly me

495 mimic | minister 4 In BrE a mil

497 mis- I misprints to be guarded

499 mitre | mocha had served to mit

501 monarchal, monarchial, monarchi

503 mores | mortuary singular noun

505 mother | mouse to the early 19c

507 muchly | Muslim appropriate or

509 mutual I muzhik aging, judgemen

Nn 'n (or 'n'), colloq. shortening

513 naphtha | native etc., see SUFF

515 nautilus | necessities, necessa

517 needleful | negligible looking

519 nem. con. | neologism and says

521 nevertheless, nonetheless | nic

523 ninish, ninth | no the years 91

525 nomenclature | nonce kettle off

527 nonplus I nor nonplus /nrai'plA

529 not is not gold) is not strictl

531 notary public | not to worry mo

533 noun and verb accent, pronuncia

535 numerals | nurturance acquainta

537 objective genitive | obliquenes

539 obsolete | octopus (observance

541 Of 2 Some monosyllables take -o

543 Of patent illogicalities; and a

545 officialese is no longer a pros

547 offspring | Olympiad, Olympian,

549 -on I one Brink, 1988 (SAfr.);

551 one another | only The going is

553 onomatopoeia | on to, onto 2 Th

555 optative | or are the usual pai

557 orderly | Orleans ordinance, or

559 other I otherwise from the citi

561 our I -our- and -orour. I i our

563 outward, outwards | overlay, ov

565 owl-like I oxymoron assurance t

567 pajamas | palpable 3 Number con

569 paparazzo | parallelepiped have

571 paratroops | Parkinson paratroo

573 parson | partially, partly pars

575 particularly | party borne in m

577 passive territory | passive ter

579 pâté I pay /'paesti/. See TAR

58i and you will see what I mean. T

583 penult I per penult. Frequently

585 perchance | perfect infinitive

587 periphrasis | persiflage periph

589 personage, personality | person

591 perspire | petite in avoiding t

593 phenomenon | phlogiston remarka

595 phthisis I physician, doctor, s

597 pièce de résistance | pinion

599 plain sailing | pic, PLC moveme

6oi pleonasm | plunder observe in N

603 p.m | poeticisms in Latin. To b

605 politic, political | polysyllab

607 poor | porcelain homosexual. It

609 possessive with gerund | posses

6ii On Sunday we prayed for rain; o

613 pram | precipitous pram (peramb

615 prefer | prelude unruly brood o

617 they must he prepared to blow t

619 prerequisite | prescriptivism o

621 preserve | pretty DARE i, 1985;

623 previous | princess wartime sub

625 privacy | probe with oblong pat

627 progress | pro-life 2 (verb). T

629 pronouncement | pronunciamento

631 propaganda | proper terms wrest

633 prophetess | prosopopoeia proph

635 protasis | protestant 4 Early i

637 prox I psychological moment pro

639 punctum I purport punctum -UM 2

641 pursuant | pyrrhic sociologist

643 quandary | question quandary. N

645 quiet I quite business activity

647 quote I quoth the main sentence

Rr r. See INTRUSIVE R; LINKING R. r

651 Ralph I rate Ralph. The pronunc

653 ratio J re more complex, and ca

655 readable | reason action, event

657 recess | recessive accent [Its]

659 reciprocal | reclaim Gallery),

66i rector. In the Church of Englan

663 regalia | regardless hardly ran

665 related | reliable teacher—Ch

667 renouncement, renunciation | re

66g 'common in recent American use'

671 resolve | respectively resolve

673 rest room | Revelation rest roo

675 revivals | rhyming slang reviva

677 righteous | road, street he has

679 roguish I rondel after Wilhelm

68i natural one. Most particularly,

683 ruble I Russian uses as well as

685 saga I said confusion with reli

68 7 same as | sanction sources fro

68g target. I turned to other sourc

6gi sat, used as a present particip

693 scandalum magnatum | scarify sc

695 schist (geology). Pronounce /Ji

697 sear, sere | see, bishopric, di

699 self-deprecating, -deprecation,

sensitize is a word first made for

703 sentinel, sentry | sequence of

705 sestina | sexist language sesti

707 shambles | shambles Oxford Guid

709 s/he J shibboleth the men are .

711 should and would | shrink shoul

713 sick I similar sick. See ILL. s

715 singular -s | sit most + an adj

717 slake, slack | slay came into e

719 sludge I snapshot Sludge. See S

721 SO J SO where the responsive no

723 sociable, social | sociologese

725 so long | -some SO long = goodb

727 somewhen | sonorous Using a joi

729 sow I specious Soviet has large

731 spelling I spelling come down t

733 spelling I spelling some single

735 spillikins, spel(l)icans | spir

737 split infinitive | split infini

739 spoonful I -s-, -ss- Dean and W

741 state I stem a starlit night, a

743 stimulus I stop Stimulus. PLURA

745 strappado | strive up ( = he st

747 subjunctive mood | subjunctive

749 succedaneum | such SUCCedaneum

75i suffixes added to proper names

753 summersault j superlatives summ

755 suppressor | surmise suppressor

757 sustainedly | swing The OED (19

759 sy m bo logy | synonyms before

Tt tabes (emaciation). Pronounce /'

763 tangible | tart tangible. Its p

765 taxi I teem tribute, VAT. With

767 temptress | terminal temptress,

769 tessera | than TTiy moral morn,

771 thanks to | that thankfully she

773 that discovered that it was St.

775 the (b) which-clauses: he is de

777 themself | thereafter 3 As a de

779 thesaurus | think most salubrio

78i wealth) has small currency exce

783 tilth I times that until is fra

7«5 tissue I together (American di

787 tonsorial | tost tonsorial. Use

78g Lewis's The Otterhury Incident

791 transsexual | trecento under FB

793 same author, presented on the s

795 troop, troupe | true and false

797 tryst I tubercular, tuberculous

799 -ty and -ness glow, shade, visi

Uu U. Anyone who believes that ther

8o3 2 Plurals in -a only. Further c

805 unavowedly | unbend (Chicago Tr

807 underwhelm | unidiomatic -ly Ma

809 United Kingdom | unless and unt

8ii unpractical | unthinkable of Sa

813 up and down | upcoming up about

815 -us I use are as well-informed

Vv vacation is in America the ordin

819 varlet | -ve(d), -ves colleague

821 verbal noun, verbal substantive

823 versify | very versify. For inf

825 viceregal | view gerens pres.pp

827 virtu I vision virtu (as in art

829 voiced I vomit have been in vog

wadi (dry bed of a N. African torre

833 wantonness | waste-paper basket

835 -ways I wear, gear such Age as

837 well and well- | well-nigh must

839 wharfinger | what wharfinger (o

841 what ever, whatever for). The r

843 whereby | whether known; the ot

845 while I whinge clause or expres

847 whitish I who and whom in the B

849 whodunit | whose the antiquity

«51 willful I -wise, -ways the cas

853 witticism | woman the Irish poe

855 work I worn-out humour work (ve

857 worship I wrath, wrathful, wrot

Xx -X, as plural of loanwords from

86i Yiddish | yous, youse yet is ac

Zz Zarathustrian /zgera'Gustnan/. T

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873 SUPPLEMENT 1984; If the free ma