Rebecca Gowers

Ernest Gowers

The great Sir Ernest Gowers ... the grand old boy himself

Itself a model of how plain words should be used

Rebecca Gowers has been charged with the task of producing a version which is true to the spirit of the original but adapted to the needs of the 21st century. She discharges this task with wit and delicacy

Gowers's main precepts are as sensible today as they were when he first presented them ... beneficial, intelligent and sympathetic

Over half a century after <I>Plain Words</I> was first published, its principles are as important as ever: say what you mean in the clearest possible fashion. Rebecca Gowers has done a great job ... superb

One thing that makes Gowers such an engaging figure is that he isn't prissy, priggish or prim. As far as he is concerned, language is a living thing that is constantly changing - and this is just as it should be

Still the best book on English and how  to write it ... Unhappy with versions rewritten by others, Rebecca Gowers, Sir Ernest's  great-granddaughter, has produced a new edition ... The result is splendid ... Gowers wrote with wit, humanity and common sense ... [his] central advice should be taped to the screen of anyone sitting down at a computer keyboard

The book has been modernized but preserves all its original charm ... There is arguably a greater need for its circulation among the general public [than ever before]

The zeal with which Sir Ernest uncovers error is matched only by the wit with which he chastises it

I am glad that attention should be continually drawn to copies of this book ... I am in full sympathy with the doctrine laid down by Sir Ernest Gowers

A sweetly reasonable and wholly admirable guide

It will delight far wider circles than those to whom it is primarily addressed

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Vastly informative and indispensable

The great Sir Ernest Gowers ... the grand old boy himself

Itself a model of how plain words should be used

Vastly informative and indispensable

The great Sir Ernest Gowers ... the grand old boy himself

Itself a model of how plain words should be used

Vastly informative and indispensable

The great Sir Ernest Gowers ... the grand old boy himself

Itself a model of how plain words should be used

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