Rhetoric, grammar, logic, prosody, diplomacy, literature, etc. A tumblr tribute to Fowler's Modern English Usage.

All entries are typed exactly as they appear in the 2nd edition, OUP, 1965. User beware, current usage may have changed for some entries.

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hair-do

hair-do. This now common compound noun has reached the dictionaries, and deserves to supersede the alien coiffure and be written hairdo.