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Plain Words

Plain Words is a style guide for British English written in 1948 by Sir Ernest Gowers[?], and expanded and reissued in 1954 as The Complete Plain Words. It was later revised by Sir Bruce Fraser[?].

ISBN 0140511997

See also

The Chicago Manual of Style
The Elements of Style
Fowler's Modern English Usage

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