| Author Quoted | Henri Watson Fowler |
| Title Quoted | Dictionary of Modern English Usage |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1949/12/31 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : Oxford University Press. 1926 |
| Quotation | Evelyn Waugh got Burns, of Hollis and Carter, to send me a copy of Ward Fowler's Modern English Usage as an incentive to clean up my prose style, if I can be said to possess a prose style. I am resolving to use it. That is one of my New Year's resolutions, along with a return to the Stations of the Cross daily and regularly after Chapter - or sometime - at least once a day. |
| Quotation Source | Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and Writer. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 2, 1941-1952.; Edited by Jonathan Montaldo. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 391 |
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