Back on August 7, E. Ward Gilman (of MWDEU fame) e-mailed me about Burchfield’s Fowler (billed as the third edition, 1998, of Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage, 1926): Quite a few years ago, when I was hoping to be able to write a review of Burchfield’s Fowler, I ran across another curiosity.   It was … Continue reading various of