Foolproof

Stephen Lewis, while commenting on a recent post of mine, referred in passing to Fowler. Henry Watson Fowler. Here are my two favourite excerpts from Modern English Usage:

I have written about them before, but that was before Google Books; I couldn’t resist embedding the original text in a rewrite, and in the expectation that many of you weren’t regular readers when I last wrote about Fowler.

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