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Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.

Henry Fowler

Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.

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About Henry Fowler

Henry Fowler may refer to:

Henry the Fowler (861–936), Duke of Saxony and King of the Germans
Henry Fowler (hymn writer) (1779–1838), English hymn writer
Henry Fowler (Maryland and Wisconsin) (1799–?), American farmer and politician
Henry J. Fowler, Maryland businessman and legislator
Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton (1830–1911), British politician
Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933), English schoolmaster, lexicographer and commentator on the usage of English
Henry Fowler (rugby), English rugby union footballer who played in the 1870s
Henry Fowler (died 1896) of Milsom and Fowler, Victorian murderer
Sir Henry Fowler (engineer), (1870–1938) English locomotive engineer
Henry Fowler, 2nd Viscount Wolverhampton (1870–1943), son of Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton
Henry Weed Fowler (1878–1965), zoologist
Henry H. Fowler (1908–2000), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Fowler (educator) (1915–2007), Jamaican educator and politician