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dare/dares/dared

 
 
JTT
 
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Reply Thu 4 Aug, 2011 05:04 pm
@contrex,
No, I was pointing out an oxymoron.
contrex
 
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Reply Fri 5 Aug, 2011 12:20 am
@JTT,
You don't think a late-1990s revision of Fowler is sufficiently "modern"?
JTT
 
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Reply Fri 5 Aug, 2011 10:33 pm
@contrex,
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You don't think a late-1990s revision of Fowler is sufficiently "modern"?


Surely you jest, C. It was out of date when it was first printed.

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Take Modern English Usage, by that good man H. W. Fowler, "a Christian in all but actual faith," as the Dictionary of National Biography called him. Despite a revision in 1965, it is out-of-date,

http://www.pbs.org/speak/speech/correct/decline/
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