Example sentences for: gowers

How can you use “gowers” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Mr. Davidson misquotes Gowers, who does not say that the Scottish pronunciation is `skawn' (which would rhyme with `dawn.

  • Gowers, himself an Englishman, said that “in Scotland, its land of origin, the pronunciation is skawn , and English people who know this so pronounce it.”

  • Wisdom on the scone -pronunciation issue was shown by Sir Ernest Gowers in his 1965 revision of H.W.

  • As Whitcut carefully indicates in her Preface, chapters 3-14 and 18 are “almost pure Gowers.

  • Here is Sir Bruce Fraser in his revision of Sir Ernest Gowers's The Complete Plain Words:


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