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Another factor, not quite as old although not a novelty, either, is the pressure of the speak-as-you-spell movement first described by the Fowler brothers in Modern English Usage .
"In all discussion of metaphor," writes H. W. Fowler in Modern English Usage , "it must be borne in mind that some metaphors are living, i.e., are offered and accepted with a consciousness of their nature as substitutes for their literal equivalents, while others are dead, i.e., have been so often used that speaker and hearer have ceased to be aware that the words used are not literal."
Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage . He moved on from Fowler's following of the big Oxford English Dictionary in allowing both pronunciations but with preference for “skoan.”
The LAT coffee tapes story has the same basics as everybody else, although unaccountably reporting the non-news that at one coffee President Clinton says hi to George Steinbrenner before getting to the potentially explosive Fowler story.
Fowler lists five instances where a careless writer can go wrong.
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