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How can you use “fowler” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
I remember, though, that many years ago the great Fowler declared that the non-Scots use of ilk is merely an example of Worn-out Humour.
The reader wins because he is right--it is up to the writer to ensure that the reader should not be given any False Scents . Here are two additional ones to the four examples Fowler gives that cause a reader to go down the wrong track in a sentence, ending in a sort of double-take:
By all means read Fowler's delightful statement of affairs about False Scents --he generates a wonderfully, though quite unwitting, humorous cameo of writer and reader virtually calling each other fools.
While we're at it, why not outlaw all words and expressions we've purloined over the years from specialized fields--such as melancholy, hectic, chronic , and allergic (medicine); leading question , time is of the essence (law); by and large, high and dry, slush fund, round robin, aloof (sailing); ego, extrovert, complex, phobia, psyche, depression, trauma, subconscious (same place as empathy); and many more of what Fowler called popularized technicalities.
When this rule was quoted to Fowler yesterday by Republican Sen.
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