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In a rather exuberant mood, "Ray Ward-telecomrc.com"
<rayward@fiinix.metronet.com> writes
>In article <57o2jt$rj2@methusalix.rz.tu-clausthal.de>,
>_spinoza_ <schfb@pecip2.pe.tu-clausthal.de> wrote:

>I would recommend that no one buy this deceptive book.  I am offended that
>Oxford University Press would market a dictionary of modern English
>usage as Fowler's, when it is not his at all.  I am also offended at
>the remarkably bad taste shown by marketing the book by trading on Fowler's
>name, presumably to those who are fond of him or respect him, when the
>book itself insults Fowler personally, as well as insulting the reader.
>See the _clever_ article.

I can't comment on the validity of your critique of F3, I only have F2.
but as for your comments on OUP calling it Fowlers, methinks they've
picked up the same american(?) tradition as in calling thesauruses
Roget's and American dictionaries Websters. Ah well.

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