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bartleby - The King’s English
(E?)(L?) http://www.bartleby.com/116/
H.W. Fowler
The plan for the second edition of the classic reference work The King’s English was dictated by the following considerations: (1) to pass by all rules, of whatever absolute importance, that are shown by observation to be seldom or never broken; and (2) to illustrate by living examples, with the name of a reputable authority attached to each, all blunders that observation shows to be common.
SECOND EDITION
OXFORD: CLARENDON PRESS, 1908
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 1999
- PART I
- Chapter I. Vocabulary
- General Principles
- Familiar and far-fetched words
- Concrete and abstract expression
- Circumlocution
- Short and long words
- Saxon and Romance words
- Requirements of different styles
- Malaprops
- Neologisms
- Americanisms
- Foreign words
- Formation
- Slang
- Individual
- Mutual
- Unique
- Aggravate
- Chapter II. Syntax
- Case
- Number
- Comparatives and superlatives
- Relatives
- Defining and non-defining relative clauses
- That and who or which
- And who, and which
- Case of the relative
- Miscellaneous uses of the relative
- It … that
- Participle and gerund
- Participles
- The gerund
- Distinguishing the gerund
- Omission of the gerund subject
- Choice between gerund and infinitive
- Shall and will
- The pure system
- The coloured-future system
- The plain-future system
- Second-person questions
- Examples of principal sentences
- Substantival clauses
- Conditional clauses
- Indefinite clauses
- Examples of subordinate clauses
- Perfect infinitive
- Conditionals
- Doubt that
- Prepositions
- Chapter III. Airs and Graces
- Certain types of humour
- Elegant variation
- Inversion
- Exclamatory
- Balance
- In syntactic clauses
- Negative, and false-emphasis
- Miscellaneous
- Archaism
- Occasional
- Sustained
- Metaphor
- Repetition
- Miscellaneous
- Trite phrases
- Irony
- Superlatives without the
- Cheap originality
- Chapter IV. Punctuation
- General difficulties
- General principles
- The spot plague
- Over-stopping
- Under-stopping
- Grammar and punctuation
- Substantival clauses
- Subject, &c., and verb
- Adjectival clauses
- Adverbial clauses
- Parenthesis
- Misplaced commas
- Enumeration
- Comma between independent sentences
- Semicolon with subordinate members
- Exclamations and statements
- Exclamations and questions
- Internal question and exclamation marks
- Unaccountable commas
- The colon
- Miscellaneous
- Dashes
- General abuse
- Legitimate uses
- Debatable questions
- Common misuses
- Hyphens
- Quotation marks
- Excessive use
- Order with stops
- Single and double
- Misplaced
- Half quotation
- PART II
- Some less important chapters had been designed on Euphony, Ambiguity, Negligence, and other points. But as the book would with them have run to too great length, some of the examples have been simply grouped here in independent sections, with what seemed the minimum of comment.
- Euphony
- Jingles
- Alliteration
- Repeated prepositions
- Sequence of relatives
- Sequence of that, &c.
- Metrical prose
- Sentence accent
- Causal as clauses
- Wens and hypertrophied members
- Careless repetition
- Quotation, &c.
- Common misquotations
- Uncommon misquotations of well-known passages
- Misquotation of less familiar passages
- Misapplied and misunderstood quotations and phrases
- Allusion
- Incorrect allusion
- Dovetailed and adapted quotations and phrases
- Trite quotation
- Latin abbreviations, &c.
- Grammar
- Unequal yokefellows and defective double harness
- Common parts
- The wrong turning
- Ellipse in subordinate clauses
- Some illegitimate infinitives
- Split infinitives
- Compound passives
- Confusion with negatives
- Omission of as
- Other liberties taken with as
- Brachylogy
- Between two stools
- The impersonal one
- Between … or
- A placed between the adjective and its noun
- Do as substitute verb
- Fresh starts
- Vulgarisms and colloquialisms
- Meaning
- Tautology
- Redundancies
- As to whether
- Superfluous but and though
- If and when
- Maltreated idioms
- Truisms and contradictions in terms
- Double emphasis
- Split auxiliaries
- Overloading
- Demonstrative, noun, and participle or adjective
- Ambiguity
- False scent
- Misplacement of words
- Ambiguous position
- Ambiguous enumeration
- Style
- Antics
- Journalese
- Somewhat, &c.
- Clumsy patching
- Omission of the conjunction that
- Meaningless while
- Commercialisms
- Pet Phrases
- Also as conjunction; and &c.
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kokogiak - Obscure English words
(E4)(L1) http://www.kokogiak.com/logolepsy/
Welcome to "Luciferous Logolepsy", a collection of over 9,000 obscure english words. Though the definition of an "english" word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, derivative, archaic or abandoned words in what we loosely define as the "English Language", that a clear-cut definition seems impossible. For the purposes of this project though, words are included that may stretch any basic definitions. Particular attention has been paid to archaic words, as they tend to be more evocative - as if their very age lends additional meaning or overtones. Current personal favorites include "skirr", "epicaricacy" and "schizothemia".
The name of this project is also its description: "Luciferous" [adj. - "illuminating, literally and figuratively"] "Logolepsy" [n. - "an obsession with words"], in other words: 'an illuminating obsession with words'.
(To build your own links to words, simply link to the page they are on, and add an anchor to the URL with the word, like this: http://www.kokogiak.com/logolepsy/ow_l.html#luciferous )
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