Fowler’s Modern English Usage

Around v about: British English v American – not to mention across

14 April 2018 9:00 am

Crooning is I think the word to describe what my husband was doing to the lyrics of a Beach Boys…

The words The Spectator gave the world

9 January 2016 9:00 am

When the much missed Frank Johnson (1943–2006), once editor of The Spectator, wrote in 1980 that ‘the peculiar need for…