Since its first publication in 1926, this world famous guide to English usage has come to be known affectionately simply as `Fowler'. Journalists, broadcasters, and writers of all kinds have turned to it whenever they have required definitive judgements on all matters of English usage. Taking account of the extensive changes in standard English over the last 20 years, 'Fowler' has been written afresh and expanded by Robert Burchfield, the distinguished Oxford lexicographer.